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Frieze (France)
This is a Frieze. It is dated 1810–20 and we acquired it in 1928. Its medium is block printed on handmade paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.
This frieze simulates a drapery festoon containing an embroidered border, above a simulated cyma reversa molding enriched with acanthus leaves and palmettes. The intent of this type of drapery swag was to be used at the bottom of the papered wall, as one part of a three part installation. A border at the top of the wall would contain a printed hanging rod and drapery pleats, while the main sidewall paper would continue these pleats and folds down the wall meeting up with the pleats in the bottom border. These printed drapery swags were also used alone as a frieze or top border paired with a patterned sidewall paper. This drapery swag was reproduced and used in a restoration of the Blue Room in the White House.
This object was
donated by
Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- Textile, Nuno me Gara (Cloth Patterned Cloth)
- cotton.
- Gift of Junichi Arai.
- 1985-31-1
- Sidewall (France)
- block printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1928-2-110
- Clock Clock
- fire-gilt bronze, blackened bronze, enameled metal (dial), blued steel....
- Gift of the Estate of Carl M. Loeb.
- 1955-82-1-a/c
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Drawing, Design for Bed with Tented Alcove, probably for the Prince of...
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on white wove paper .
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-40-26
- Frieze (France)
- block-printed and flocked paper.
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Jackson.
- 1973-10-1
- Drawing, Wall Elevation of a Bedroom Alcove
- pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on white....
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-261
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (a,b): 42.6 × 88.6 cm (16 3/4 × 34 7/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Frieze (France); block printed on handmade paper; H x W x D (a,b): 42.6 × 88.6 cm (16 3/4 × 34 7/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1928-2-69-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
