Sidewall - fragment
date: label: Date
content: 1795–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: a) Obverse: A mythological scene of three classic figures in grisaille representing a bacchic scene, Youth with a thyrus holding up Bacchus whose fallen empty drinking cup is on the ground. Maenade with a lyre is laughing at him. At top is an applied border simulating a draped fabric, edged top and bottom with lace, and held up by a leaf motif. At bottom is a border simulating marble. b) Reverse: A Directoire design of alternating geometric squares with rosettes. Between are figures of children at play done in grisaille. At bottom is a wide border simulating marble. Green, amber, black and white on gray field.
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 Hanley Henoch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-31-1
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Sidewall - fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block-printed on handmade paper
label: Dimensions
content: 68 x 46 cm (26 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)