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Frieze

ca. 1880 · Machine-printed paper

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Narrow bands of geometric ornament across top and bottom. Long narrow panels, trefoil-headed, set with conventionalized axial passion-flower, above small tangent semi-circles enclosing conventional half-water lilies. Paper embossed with pebbled figure.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description

Subjects

Friezes (ornamental areas)Wall coverings

Credit lineFrieze. ca. 1880. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Edith and Maude Wetmore. CC0.

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