Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

ca. 1880

Machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

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

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