Textile Design with Oval Motifs with Small Bundles with Flowers Joined by Thin Interlacing Lines

Vertical panel with a textile design that is part of a group of 266 textile designs by the American artist Robert Bryer, possibly made for United Designing Co., since most of the designs carry a stamp of the "United Designing Co. / WOrth 4 - 8975". Some of them also contain a stamp in the verso of the "Original Designing Company, Inc."

The collection contains a great variety of designs, from the more traditional floral and stripe patterns, to thematic designs based on various travel destinations, with palm trees and other holiday attributes. Especially interesting among these are patterns inspired by textiles and paintings of Native American tribes, including the Inca, Navajo, Aztec and Maya. The patterns are composed of semi-abstract figures distributed across the design in a regular or, in some cases, a more casual fashion. The spontaneity of designs and the use of floral and animal motifs suggest they were created for printed textiles in the forties.

This textile design is made up of white oval-shaped motifs with dark blue shadows, decorated with small bundles of red roses, yellow flowers with red pistils, yellow and pink flower buds, and green leaves with branches, held together by interlacing pairs of thin white and dark blue lines decorated with small rosettes with white petals and red centers over a blue ground. This design reflects the re-creation of "chintz" motifs that took place in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s, by using the traditionally used roses in an alternative way, as decorations for other motifs.