Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1810–20
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Empire-style frieze. Pale gray ground with affronted grisaille swans amidst foliage, represented as if in relief. At top, border, illusionistically shaded border simulating architectural ornament, in ochers and yellow, of stylized, simplified acanthus leaves. Frieze dominated by bright blue cylix-shaped vases with ocher and yellow ornament which alternate, between grisaille swans, with blue, yellow and ocher flambeau. At bottom, medium gray band with darker gray five-pointed stars.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Wallcoverings Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Josephine Howell, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1959-160-18-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Frieze
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block printed on handmade paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c): 53.3 × 165.7 cm (21 in. × 5 ft. 5 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 53.3 × 157.5 cm (21 in. × 5 ft. 2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 53.3 × 101.6 cm (21 × 40 in.)