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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums

c. 1925
(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
  • 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=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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