Decorative arts

Snakeshead

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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1876
Accession number: 2000.5.525
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Thomas Wardle, Leek, Staffordshire(Opens in new tab) (British)
Designer: William Morris(Opens in new tab) (British, 1834–1896)
Dimensions: 11 3/8 x 38 3/8 in. (28.9 x 97.5 cm.)
Medium: block printed cotton
Description: Dark blue field, light blue and green leafy vines intertwining, interspersed with small red and yellow flowers, and larger yellow flowers rising from red bases
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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