Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- a) Frieze: bandings, top to bottom: 1) pink and purple acanthus leaves; 2) pink row of balls; 3) yellow, orange, purple wave and feather/foliage pattern; 4 & 5) narrow geometric pink and purple bandings forming architrave for gold and yellow Ionic and Corinthian capitals with elaborate acanthos. Below architrave: half-round vignettes, three amorini, two with staffs, one with horn riding goat. b) Purple and pink column, fluted, with black bands and leaf decoration. Deep blue acanthus border.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Josephine Howell, Inc.
- 1820
- Accession Number
- 1959-160-26-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Frieze
- Medium
- Block-printed on handmade paper
- Dimensions
- 96 x 53 cm (37 13/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Place
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Wallcoverings Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1959-160-26-a_b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46b60f69b-06ef-41af-bdd5-25761a05f921
