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1982	Work on this object began.
1988	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
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Textile, Zambra

This is a Textile. It was manufactured by Création Baumann AG. It is dated 1982 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is polyester and its technique is gauze weave. It is a part of the Textiles department.

This object was donated by Création Baumann AG.

Book plate from a trade catalog showing a spectrophometer, a device that can detect two million shades of color and reproduce them, in the bottom left corner, shown in greyscale. It overlays a colored vertical border which gradiates the color sectrum from purple at the top to blue to green to yellow to orange to red at the bottom. Just above the spectrophometer is a passage of black text explaining what it is. While a column on the right-hand side explains other industrial uses of the spectrophometer.

Trade Catalog, Electronics, A New Science for a New World, 1942
offset lithograph on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, 005041.
92.2016.54

A repeating white stencil flower and leaves pattern on a gold background. A zigzag darkened pattern in light brown goes through the entire work. There are negative parallegram spaces inbetween the pattern which have a lightened effect. The entire piece appears to shine with golden light.

Sidewall (Germany)
block printed on handmade paper.
Gift of Deutsches Tapetenmuseum.
1955-51-7

This handthrown earthenware vase is a tall oval-shape with a flat top. The lip is pinched into a pointed oval, and the sides pinched together to continue that line down the vase. The bottom is rounded, with a simple round foot. The vase is finely painted with a brilliant seascape in metallic glazes. Tall golden pines with umbrella-shaped foliage stand with low golden shrubs and rocks against a turquoise and violet sea, below a flaming red-orange sky darkening into deep violet-plum above. The iridescence of the glaze adds richness to the scene.

Grand Seascape with Trees Vase, ca. 1900
hand-painted and metallic-glazed thrown earthenware.
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund and through gift of....
2015-10-2

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

A computer ink on paper drawing of an aerial view of a cube split into eight floating blocks. Each block is comprised of 49 microcubes. Each cube and is graded in color creating a three dimensional color chart. The cube at the leftmost bottom corner red to orange, the one above yellow to green. The cube at the bottom next to the red to orange cube is pink to violet, the one above is white with tinges of pink and blue. The cube in the right most bottom corner is deep blue to violet, the one above cyan to bright blue and the one beside it light green to dark green. Black text at the bottom details author, title and date.

Drawing, The Chromo Cube
computer ink plotter print on paper.
Gift of Beck & Jung.
1981-19-1

Poster depicts tapestry of printer control marks in various tones of magenta, purple, cyan, yellow, green, black and white. These marks are presented in circles, squares, rectangles, ovals, and lines. On the reverse side, the text advertises a series of exhibitions on editorial dsign helf in 2008 in the town of Chaumont, France.

Poster, Specimen
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Fanette Mellier.
2013-18-1

A computer ink on paper poster of a blue sky with wispy clouds on which a three dimensional cube floats in the bottom right corner. The cube is made up of sixteen square gridded panels, each panel in various chromatic colors so that when viewed all together it represents a gradient of the color spectrum. The panels at the back in the red, orange and violet spectrum, the ones at the front in the yellow and white spectrum, the ones at the bottom in the green and blue spectrum.

Poster, Chrome Cube
computer ink plotter print on paper.
Gift of Holger Backstrom and Bo Ljundberg.
1985-9-1

Its dimensions are

H x W: 307.3 × 301.6 cm (10 ft. 1 in. × 9 ft. 10 3/4 in.) Repeat H: 48.9 cm (19 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Textile, Zambra; Manufactured by Création Baumann AG; Switzerland; polyester; H x W: 307.3 × 301.6 cm (10 ft. 1 in. × 9 ft. 10 3/4 in.) Repeat H: 48.9 cm (19 1/4 in.); 1988-111-11

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dto8/
Accession Number 1988-111-11
Object ID 18627751