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Sidewall
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Sidewall

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

All-over Aesthetic pattern of enlarged, highly-stylized sprigs of flowers on a ground covered with a variety of Japonesque geometric patterns and frets; sprigs form a rough diamond-shaped repeat that is printed in off-set columns; flowers reminiscent of ones that can be found on Middle-Eastern carpeting and ceramics; cream coloring with darker-cream outlining; ground is light brown with geometric patterns marked in darker brown

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineSidewall. ca. 1880. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Jones and Erwin, Inc.. CC0.

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