The collection of prints with images principally of geometric and floral designs for interior wall and floor decoration, plus designs for jewellery and cermaics, and architect drawings. All are in portrait format with descriptive label struck on paper below the image. Printed, at lower left corner is [artist's] name and at right, the printer and number of the print.

Produced for the South Kensington Museum, London (now the Victoria & Albert Museum)

Date range is 1870-1885

Trubner & Co was the London agent for the Museum primarily for publications & printed matter. For evidence and documentation of this please refer to the archival files: MRS 8, Correspondence Sent - Trubner & Co. (London), 1884-1890, p.18-22; MRS 303, Recuisitions, 1882-1896 (in bundle of requisitions submitted to Trustees, 23 Dec 1884); and MRS 117/4, Annual Report, 1885, p.26. The letters deal with the acquisition of books & periodicals, orders for specific works & include enclosures in settlements of accounts. Trubner & Co became Messrs Kegan Paul, French & Trubner & Co from the 14 January 1890.

Chromolithograph, 'Tiles of faience of some ancient monuments of Kounia-Ourg-hentch', paper/ink, various makers, Russia/England, [1870-1885]

Rectangular sheet of paper depicting five separate tile designs. The colours used in the print are predominantly blue, green and orange.

Designer: unknown; Russia

Maker: South Kensington Museum; London, England; 1870 - 1885


Owner: Trubner & Co

printed above plate u.c. "44"
paper adhered below image l.c. "44. - Tiles of faience of some ancient monuments of Kounia-Ourg- / hentch, a town in the oasis of Khiva, which has passed several / times to the Persians. This fact explains the influence of Persian / art, which has hardly anything in common with the Bokhara / art, and which is remarked in these tiles".

97/25/7

555 mm

372 mm