The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 17, 2025

Chrysanthemums

c. 1925
manufacturer

Maison Henry Bertrand

(French)
France
silk, artificial gold thread; twill-based jacquard weave
Overall: 310.1 x 108 cm (122 1/16 x 42 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2003.42
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Elaborately constructed textiles, such as this example from Maison Bertrand of Lyon, were most often used in creating high couture fashion.

Description

Among the many sumptuous textiles presented at the 1925 Paris exposition was this silk brocade by Maison Henry Bertrand of Lyon, probably intended for use in a coat or shawl design.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 369
    Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The jazz age: American style in the 1920s. 2017. p. 43, 45, 328
    Harrison, Stephen. “The Jazz Age: The 1920s brought a new rhythm to American style.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 57, no. 5 (September/October 2017): Cover, 5-7. Reproduced: Cover; Mentioned: P. 7 archive.org
  • The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
  • {{cite web|title=Chrysanthemums|url=false|author=Maison Henry Bertrand|year=c. 1925|access-date=17 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2003.42