1985.R.124, Table runner, 18th century, France, Europe

This beautiful panel is a continuous colorful feast of scrolling large-scale flowers and leafage interspersed with small birds and butterflies. Simplified but similar motifs are found on the drawer-fronts of the ivory plaqued cabinet on stand in the Reves Collection (1985.R.573.A-C). Such patterns were disseminated by engravings published in Germany, France, and the Low Countries. This design is similar to one by the 16th-century Nuremberg engraver and publisher Virgil Solis (1514-62), who published over 600 woodcuts and engravings for the use of stuccoists, woodcarvers, metal workers, and textile embroiderers and weavers. 

Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985), 211.

Until 1985: Emery Reves (1904-1983) and Wendy Reves (1916-2007) (owned jointly), La Pausa, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [1]

From 1985: Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, gift of Wendy Reves (1916-2007) [1]

[1] According to: Olivier Meslay and Martha MacLeod, From Chanel to Reves (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2015), 4-5.

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