The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 13, 2026

A cream-colored horizontally oriented silk textile is printed with a dense repeating pattern of stylized tan branches with jagged, curling edges. These sprawling vines sprout green and pale yellow flowers with pointed petals and dark charcoal buds. The interlocking organic shapes create a rhythmic design in muted tones across the rectangular cloth, which has frayed, unfinished edges along the horizontal borders.

Flower of the Desert (No. C761)

1927
manufacturer

Stehli Silks Corporation

(United States; Pennsylvania, Lancaster; and New York, New York, 1840–c. 1955)
America, New York
Silk: plain weave, printed
Overall: 48.3 x 102.9 cm (19 x 40 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Stehli Silks Corporation 1928.272
Location: Not on view
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.272