Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1800–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Dado pattern of five brightly-colored horizontal bandings. Bottom to top: 1) narrow gold and brown geometric architectural border; 2) gray diamonds; 3) principal banding - pale blue marbleized ground with black decorative circles around yellow and brown winged cupids playing with butterflies. Foliage and palmette ornament, black lyre; 4)banding of bright marbleized green with gold and brown bosses, circles, and black palmettes; 5) black simplified acanthus leaves over band shading from yellow to brown.
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: 1959-160-20
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Frieze
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block-printed paper
label: Dimensions
content: 129.5 x 55 cm (51 x 21 5/8 in.)