Among the 18th-century European textile printing experimenters, French printers established a reputation for superiority in terms of design as well as quality (brilliance and fastness of color). The magnificent circa 1780 multi-color floral print—featuring water lilies and daisies on a gold honeycomb grid—that forms the body of this Provencal quilted bedcovering was probably manufactured at the Oberkampf factory in Jouy-en-Josas, France. 

Pattern: 
Whole Cloth
Maker: 
Maker unknown
1770
1790
Probably made in
France
54
52.75
IQM, Byron and Sara Rhodes Dillow Collection
2008.040.0151