Description
From the designer Georges Briard, a Mid-Century era Lion tea towel. Silk-screen on linen.
Georges Briard created award-winning designs for items including glasses, trays, coffeepots and dishes in materials like glass, ceramics, metal, wood, and gold-plated serveware. His serveware was especially popular from the 1950s to ’70s. It was produced by companies including Culver, Pfaltzgraff and Medina Glass and sold at high-end department stores like Neiman Marcus and Bonwit Teller. Briard’s designs were found in the homes of the most fashionable hosts of the mid-century. Today, they are highly prized by collectors.
Beautifully silk screened on linen in black and yellow showing four reverse images of a recumbent lion wearing a crown.
Side running borders of yellow crowns.
With the Georges Briard signature.
28 inches long x 16.5 inches wide.
In very good vintage condition.
