Borders
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Five bands of a border design printed across the width. Generalized, small-scale classical revival (?) Each band consists of four strips of varied patterns, i.e. lowest strip consists of a cable alternating with six beads. The second strip has three alternating medallions, two larger ones flanking a small one. The third strip contains palmettes alternating with a shield-like form enclosing a five-blossomed sprig. The fourth strip consists of a Greek key fret interspersed with diamonds and simple flowers. Printed in orange, white, blue, ocher and yellow on a dark brown background.
label: Description
content: H# 616
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1972-42-1-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Borders
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block printed on handmade paper
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 76.5 x 48cm (30 1/8 x 18 7/8in.)