Art Deco

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Subject

Textiles

Title

Art Deco

Date

1915 - 1947

Description

Detail of a printed silk crepe panel; blue ground with black and discharged white abstracted floral; representative of the Late Period. 

The discharge process for dyeing the white flowers removed the dye from the blue background.

Source

Donor: Louis J. Cella, Jr.

Identifier

URI 1990.09 811

Medium

blue silk crepe, printed and discharged

Provenance

The Tirocchi Dressmaker Shop, Providence, Rhode Island

Citation

“Art Deco,” Historic Textile and Costume Collection, accessed May 17, 2024, https://uritextilecollection.omeka.net/items/show/67.