Medium:

Block-printed on handmade paper, joined

Dimensions:

68.5 x 38 cm (26 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Type:

Wallcoverings

Sidewall - fragment

Distributed in:

France

Date:

1785–95

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

A mandorla containing an adult robed classical figure with a small puto climbing the figures robes against a blue ground, framed by brick and pink colored border and then rinceaux border. Above and below, crisscrossing rinceaux in white, blue and pink. All this on a cream ground.

Credit Line:

Gift of Isabella Barclay, Inc.

Accession Number:

1950-36-1

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

See more items in:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Wallcoverings Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e4757344-74be-4e3d-9899-6236ea7423ca

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1950-36-1