Harold M. Bailey | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Fragments of valance or bed skirt. Thin woven cotton with repeating floral pattern in blue on yellow. Dominant design feature is a large curled leaf containing cut flowers. Background printed with minute dots giving almost solid effect. Diagonally oriented design.

Fragments, mid- 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-48-a/c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Textile (England)

Textile (England)
cotton.
1960-79-24-a/c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Coarsely woven curtain panel in wide stripes of red and black. Broad vertical band of red with a large open flower and foliage reserved in white alternates with a broad ban printed in horizontal black lines and overprinted with red dots. Guard borders between wider bands of red with white pattern edged with black line.

Textile (England), late 18th–early 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-6-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Length of printed cotton with a naturalistic design with nasturtiums, passion flower, and other flowers, foliage, and vines crossing and intertwining. The design appears in white on a rich indigo blue ground with etched details in blue.

Textile (England), 1790s
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-20

This object was made by Bromley Hall.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Thin, highly glazed chintz with a background of pale grey-blue showing large clusters of roses, other garden flowers and sprays of wheat in shades of rose, mauve, blue-green and pale yellow.

Textile (France), ca. 1890
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-35

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Polychrome panel with a vertical arrangement of flower bouquets of roses and passion flowers with foliage. Set off against vertical background stripes of small S-curves within foliage. Staggered repeat.

Textile (England), ca. 1835
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-32-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Textile (England)

Textile (England)
cotton.
1960-79-30-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Textile (England)

Textile (England)
wool.
1960-79-26

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Kerchief with a Chinoiserie border design printed in black on a red ground with yellow flowerheads. Mustard yellow central field with small areas and foliage patterns reserved in white. Design in horizontal-perpendicular repeat of four different groups of small Chinese figures in foliage or floral enframements in red, blue and green where printed over yellow and dark brown.

Kerchief (England), ca. 1805
glazed cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-9

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Valance in a floral design consisting of a red ground with imbricated pattern in white. Large flowers clusters in white, red and dark brown with garlands of leaves in dark brown and red. With cords and tassels. Variety of picotage used in flower leaves. Leaf garlands printed with dark brown horizontal lines. Much detail outlined in black and dark brown. Faced with fragments of block printed cotton in tulip and leaf pattern in reds and dark brown.

Valance (France), 1751–1800
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-5

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Handblocked textile in an incomplete floral pattern in madder colors of red and brown of floral sprays. Elaborate picotage background in red, and in sepia, a picotage design of windmill and flowers.

Textile (France), ca. 1760
linen warp, cotton weft.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-1-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Roller-printed textile with repeating floral pattern in yellow, red and white on an olive ground. Olive possibly printed by relief roller.

Fragment, early 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-44

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Fragment of a quilted textile. Woven cotton textile resist-dyed in two shades of blue on white background showing pattern of leaves and fruit. Interlined with wool and backed with faded pieces of plain cotton, or cotton printed in very small geometric patterns. Quilting is done in diagonal lines.

Fragment, late 18th–early 19th century
cotton, wool batting.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1956-71-1-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Length of very thin, lightweight cotton printed in blue with a design of a platter of fruit amid foliage and grape vines. Printed area covers selvage on right side.

Textile, ca. 1850
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-54

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Roller printed textile sample in a pattern of brown, yellow and white vertical stripes overlaid with brown stars. Mounted to paper with handwritten notes.

Sample (England), late 19th–early 20th century
cotton, paper.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-41

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Off-white cotton, copperplate-printed in a red Chinoiserie design, in the style of Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A young man and a servant carrying a standard ascend a floating stair to a pavilion, amid fantastical foliage. The panel shows one full repeat, and parts of two others. The fabric is pieced at the top, quilted and interlined with wool.

Textile, Chinese Figures, 1765
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-17

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Plate printed in red showing design of a man and woman dressed in eighteenth century garments. The man is seated in front of a house with a shoe, beside him is a box of tools. Woman is looking out of the entrance door. Scene is set within large scale garlands of birds, flowers and fruit.

Textile (France), mid–late 18th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-16

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Textile (England)

Textile (England)
cotton.
1960-79-23-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Large bouquet of roses with smaller climbing rose brances and other flowers. Background of dark brown and floral pattern in shades of red, green, blue and white.

Textile (England), late 18th–19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-55

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Pale blue ground with a background of a small vine pattern reserved in white, possibly by discharge. Overprinted by block in a pattern of flower clusters in red, dark brown and dark green.

Textile (France), early 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-45

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Loosely-woven gray ground with minute clusters of white dots in groups of three, and minute brown egg-shaped dots in groups of two. Block printed in small detached leaf pattern in green (blue with yellow) which is veined in brown. This leaf pattern about one inch long is in a diagonal and horizontal arrangement, but in random position.

Textile (England), early 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-40

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Shaped fragment, probably from a dress, showing a wavy stripe of rose and light brown, edged with yellow and blue stripes. Small flower clusters interrupt stripe.

Textile (England), late 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-38

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Textile (Portugal)

Textile (Portugal)
cotton.
1960-79-37

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Panel of thin glazed chintz with ground in grey, with naturalistic flower clusters in lavender, rose and blue-green. Background has a streaked or cracked ice effect. Right side scalloped

Textile (France), ca. 1890
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-36

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Pillar print of two vertical fluted columns with baskets of flowers used as capitals. Appearing on the column, between the baskets, is a wreath enclosing an American eagle with a shield flag.

Textile (England), ca. 1850
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-25

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Long, narrow fragment printed in a pillar design. Brilliant natural size flowers clustered on pillar, which is striped in deep red, brown, yellow, and light red. At side, small clusters of flowers. Ground in tea-color brown.

Textile (England), mid-19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-22

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

White ground resist printed in two shades of blue with a design of a large flowering vine between pillars.

Textile (England), 18th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-18

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Red and white in a stripe pattern with small foliage decoration crossed by a branching leaf and flower. A large leaf, pointed and with scalloped edge and interior decoration forms part of the pattern.

Textile (England), late 18th–early 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-15-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Small piece of chintz with a blue ground in a pattern of flowers in a perpendicular arrangement. White Sweet William with fantastic leaves in shades of green, yellow and red against a curving band of red alternates with groups of garden flowers: iris, asters, tiger lilies with foliage in shades of red, blue, yellow, sepia and green (blue over yellow).

Textile (England), 1800–1850
glazed cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-14

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Bright red ground with a symmetrical design of a formal flower arrangement between an undulating pattern of flower and foliage in shades of brown and yellow.

Textile (England), 1800–1850
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-13

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Heavy white fabric in a staggered design of broad white stripes with perpendicular arrangement of flowers and birds framed by a narrower stripe in light brown separated on both sides with a red edge. Flower garland motifs found within narrower stripe. Colors are red, brown, blue and green (printed with yellow and blue).

Fragment (France), late 18th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-12

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Lightweight glazed chintz with a tan ground printed in a pattern of natural size flower clusters in shades of red with green leaves. Clusters are in an alternate or staggered position joined by perpendicular, stiff, heavily curved ribbons with shaded effect probably by roller. Ribbons alternate in yellow or red.

Textile (England), 1800–1850
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-11-b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Block printed cotton, red ground, small scale Chinoiserie design; uneven medallion frames with buildings center; vase with flowers. Blue, brown, and red; yellow has faded out.

Textile (England or United States), 1800–1830
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-10

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Heavy cotton printed in red, yellow and black. Background is red with an allover net design in yellow. Leaves in yellow and black with a variety of picotage.

Textile (England), early 19th century
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-8-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Printed fabric, quilted and lined, in the shape of a chair back. Spray of naturalistic flowers in reds and blues, foliage in brown. Background has a sprig design in light brown against a dark brown ground. Some of the blue color appears to be painted in.

Textile (England), 1801–50
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.