Thedlow Inc.

photographs of rugs,

Maker

Title

photographs of rugs

Medium

black and white photograph

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

16.2 x 23.8 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches) b: 9 by 5 1/4, c: 9 by 5 1/4

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In ink in the lower right corner of the top photograph: "39 AI- 7'6" x 4'4" "

Marks: Ink stamp on the bottom edge of the top image: "ARTHUR H. LEE & SONS, INC. / 501 MADISON AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y.". The two lower images both have a stamp at the top that reads, "K.V.T. / CARPETWEAVERS SINCE 1797". The lower left image also reads, "Design: A 1299 A 5 / Style: Louis XV / Ground: Vieux Rose / Ornament: gold / Inside border: Sal (missing?) in tone o(missing) / Outside borde(missing) / MINIMUM WIDTH (in this pattern): in Qual. ROYAL DEVENTER HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet (missing) / in Qual. ROYAL TEXEL HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet or 3 (missing)". The image in the lower right corner reads, "Design: A 16 C 5 / Style: Louis XV / Ground: tone on tone steel blue / Inside border: panel in champagne-color with flower-garlands surrounded by a ground in sea green / Outside border: light blue of ground-color / MINIMUM WIDTH (in this pattern): in Qual. ROYAL DEVENTER HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet or 3.65 meters / in Qual. ROYAL TEXEL HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet or 3.65 meters".

Type

Credit

Gift of the Felicia Fund, Inc. and Edward Lee Cave

Object Number

1989.103.600

photographs of rugs

In ink in the lower right corner of the top photograph: "39 AI- 7'6" x 4'4" "

Marks: Ink stamp on the bottom edge of the top image: "ARTHUR H. LEE & SONS, INC. / 501 MADISON AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y.". The two lower images both have a stamp at the top that reads, "K.V.T. / CARPETWEAVERS SINCE 1797". The lower left image also reads, "Design: A 1299 A 5 / Style: Louis XV / Ground: Vieux Rose / Ornament: gold / Inside border: Sal (missing?) in tone o(missing) / Outside borde(missing) / MINIMUM WIDTH (in this pattern): in Qual. ROYAL DEVENTER HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet (missing) / in Qual. ROYAL TEXEL HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet or 3 (missing)". The image in the lower right corner reads, "Design: A 16 C 5 / Style: Louis XV / Ground: tone on tone steel blue / Inside border: panel in champagne-color with flower-garlands surrounded by a ground in sea green / Outside border: light blue of ground-color / MINIMUM WIDTH (in this pattern): in Qual. ROYAL DEVENTER HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet or 3.65 meters / in Qual. ROYAL TEXEL HANDKNOTTED: 12 feet or 3.65 meters".

Exhibition History

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is photographs of rugs with the accession number of 1989.103.600. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.