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Wallpaper fragment. Arabesque panel featuring a mythological theme, including two satyr heads spouting spiraling vines, a diamond shaped losenge with Leda and the Swan and a baccante in a mandorla. The design also includes two winged nymphs with a large wine cup and rectangular panel filled with floral boughs. Printed in three blues, two pinks, six greens, three oranges, two greys, white, two tans and two browns on a pale blue ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
407
Unknown
France
53 1/4 x 21 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mabel Lord Gardner
1922.426A
"Wallpaper in New England," fig. 20.2, pgs. 89-90. "Les Papiers Peints en Arabesque," p. 148
France
Title Accession Number 1922.426b
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Lt. Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
satyr heads
winged nymphs
scene of Leda and the Swan
Baccante
mandorla
garlands
arabesques
Neoclassical
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