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It would have had this motif repeated across the width at least twice. In Lyon, manufacturing regulations dictated the widths in which such silks might be woven.","physicalDescription":"<i>Mise-en-carte</i> or draft for a woven silk, painted in gouache on ruled paper, printed 8 en 9 on the front and with an handwritten inscription on the back. 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Galy Gallien et cie.\r\n14 mai 1762\r\nNo. 711 Taff[eta] en dorures et nuances 35 dix[ain]es à Répétition","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"L.Galy, Gallien et cie\r\n14 May 1762\r\nNo. 711 Taffeta with metal thread and coloured silks 35 dezines in the repeatTh","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The inscription  indicates the owner of the design which was probably made by either an inhouse or freelance designer."}],"objectHistory":"Made for the firm of L.Galy, Gallien et cie., this and the other designs of this type were passed down through the partnership. They subsequently came into the hands of a designer called Robert Ruepp of 7 rue Bergère in Paris, who exhibited silks at the Great Exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and in 1925. They subsequently came into the ownership of Sir Frank Warner (of Warner and Co.) and then in 1972 into the collections of the V&A.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"for woven silk, 1762, French; Galy Gallien, ribbon meanders flowers stripes","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lesley Ellis Miller, 'Mysterious Manufacturers: Situating L. Galy, Gallien et Compe. in the Eighteenth-Century Lyons Silk Industry', <i>Studies in the Decorative Arts</i>, Vol. IX:2, Spring-summer 2002, p. 90"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Natalie Rothstein, <i>Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century</i>, Thames and Hudson, 1990, p. 249"}],"production":"This is one of a group of designs made for the silk manufacturing partnership L.Galy, Gallien et compe. between 1761 and 1769. 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