Dado

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
A purple urn containing bouquet of black foliage, flanked by griffons, printed in grisaille, seated on foliage scroll. Outside these, pilaster with interlacing foliage design or guilloche in a purple inset panel, and acanthus leaves about capital. Printed on a terra cotta ground. Horizontal rectangle in neoclassic style.
Credit Line
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1800–1820
Accession Number
1931-45-77
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
Wallcoverings
Dado
Medium
Block printed on handmade paper
Dimensions
54.5 x 72 cm (21 7/16 x 28 3/8 in.)
made in
France
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Wallcoverings Department
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1931-45-77
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45967943a-e077-4576-83b5-57bda583b570
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