Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

1845–1855

Block printed on continuous paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Vertical rectangle. Chinoiserie design of eight motifs, three including human figures, two with a sort of phoenix, and three with flowers; white field covered with slender blue-gray foliage scrolls. Printed in reds, blues, greens, and neutral oranges on white ground. Samll sections of a like paper have been cut and pasted on the front of this piece to fill losses. Mounted on a gray paper.

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