Design for Textile (?) with Gardening Trophy
Anonymous, French, 18th century French
Not on view
Design for textile (?) that is part of a group of ten designs, all containing trophies and pasted on sheets of blue paper with frames hand-drawn with black and pasted and rendered with metallic pigment. The type trophies in the designs, which are inspired on gardening and other outdoor activities, were common in the eighteenth century and could be used in wallpapers, tapestries and even as textiles for furniture.
This design contains a gardening trophy consisting of a straw hat with a carmine ribbon tied around it, a trident and tree branches, from which hang thin garlands with green leaves, pink roses, and small stylized flowers colored with pink and blue. A laurel wreath hangs under the hat, and from it hang thin garlands with exotic stylized flowers with pink and blue petals.