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Object Timeline

1987	Work on this object began.
1989	Work on this object ended.
1991	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
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Textile, Garden Path

This is a Textile. It was designed by Marian Clayden. It is dated 1987–89 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is silk and its technique is printed on double face jacquard woven silk. It is a part of the Textiles department.

This object was donated by Marian Clayden. It is credited Gift of Marian Clayden.

Here we have a white flower in bloom from a green stem. The purple style made of rounded triangles pokes up from the center, surrounded by five white petals. The opened petlas have a small, curling spikes on their surface. The green stem is thick and has rounded triangular leaves and is attached to the base.

Model, Menyanthes Trifoliate
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.11

These two sculptures share the same base and flower type. The pink flower is fully bloomed with heart shaped leaves, and numerous, thin, white filament with yellow anthers coming from a green center. The five heart petals of the flower gradient from pink on the end to white, and have dark pink veins across the surface. The stem is green and boasts small ovular leaves with spiked edges. The anatomical model next to the flower is as if the stem and closed bud were cut down the middle to reveal the inside of the flower: shaped like a lightbulb, there is a fuzzy brown pit in the middle with thin white filament through the tapering part of the bud. From the top of the filaments are small rounded anthers, exposed outside of the closed bud.

Model, Rosa Canina
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.12

Emerging from a long straight stem, slender green leaves hang vertically downward from the center and droop around the stem. Above them, white curling petals dance in bloom. Unlike most petals, these long white petals are shaped like a bean but are open, and at their top, taper from thin curl into what looks like another petal entirely, but is in fact an attached leaf-shape, light yellow in color. It is as if another petal grew out of the white bean petal, but are all attached as a unit. From the center, long, straight styli stick out and transition from a dark maroon to a pink to white.

Model, Theobroma Cacao
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.13

Its dimensions are

W (rolled): 115 cm (45 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Textile, Garden Path; Designed by Marian Clayden (British, b. 1937); Korea; silk; W (rolled): 115 cm (45 1/4 in.); Gift of Marian Clayden; 1991-87-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dwiv/
Accession Number 1991-87-1
Object ID 18637575