Textile or Wallpaper design

Brief description

Design

Dimensions   height: 670mm   width: 915mm

Organisation   Silver Studio

Caption

Pastel design for textile/wallpaper. Design of stylised tulips & acanthus scroll leaves, in yellow, green & terracotta on a mid-blue ground. Previously attributed to Harry Napper, and certainly showing his influence on Knox's work. A pastel design for textile/wallpaper featuring stylised tulips & acanthus scroll leaves, in yellow, green & terracotta on a mid-blue ground. This is possibly the work of Archibald Knox for the Silver Studio in around 1900.

Date   ca. 1900

Photograph and description courtesy of Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University, London.