Sidewall
date: label: Date
content: 1780–90
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, French, 1725–1811
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: One full repeat, part of another. Arabesque design of Pompeian inspiration. Printed in orange, red, blue and green on pale blue ground. Base: central fan-shape with classical ornament, on which two classically-draped figures sit, flanking urn from which large bouquet rises. Forming borders at edges of this segment in two narrow vertical lines: flowering plants, birds. Above, flanked by large red carnations, gazebo-like enframement for six dancing Putti before fountain, trees. "Gazebo" topped by eagle and two winged, draped females holding ends of garlands which rise to form three swags attached to base line of repeat above.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, 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 Inez Croom
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1966-89-1
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Sidewall
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block-printed on handmade paper
label: Dimensions
content: 141 x 56 cm (55 1/2 x 22 1/16 in.)