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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

  Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

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  Flounce (Belgium), 1745–65

  Section of a wide flounce with a design of curving garlands that alternates with a symmetrical framing element. Neptune with a trident alternates with a group of heraldic banners with…

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  Flounce (Belgium), late 17th century

  Brussels-style flounce with references to liquid including a woman sitting on a storm cloud, two exotically dressed people watering a fruit tree and a woman giving her milk to a…

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  Flounce (France), 18th century

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  Flounce (Italy), 18th century

  Narrow flounce of bobbin lace with a design depicting classical figures amid foliage (Daphne and Apollo?).

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  Flounce (France)

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  Dado (England), 1817–27

  Simulates wooden Chinese fretwork railing with elements repeating horizontally. An illusion of depth is achieved by means of shadows against yellow irregular wave background. Printed in purple on yellow ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1950

  Horizontal rows of white and red squares in outline, overlapping in such a way as to give an interlocked appearance. Small figures on blue-gray ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), 1949–50

  Freely drawn white squares and dark green horizontal lines in nine vertical drop-repeating columns, on pale green ground.

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  Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1948–50

  Horizontal rows of geometrical, non-representational figures outlined in dark brown. Small figures, on blue-gray ground.