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  • Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

    Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

  • Frieze, Somerset House, 1940

    Design in classic style simulating architectural ornament and showing a horizontal band of curving reeded forms strung side by side on a rod, with leaf swags below enclosing half rosettes.…

  • Frieze (USA), 1885–89

    Large bunches of pink carnations repeat horizontally above a continuous wave. Design richly laid with gold leaf. Floral bands at bottom. Graded cream and brown ground. Gold leaf.

  • Frieze (USA), 1890–95

    Imitates a flock paper. Scrollwork and clusters of roses. The scrollwork is silvered. Printed in silver, red and pink on graded cream ground.

  • Brisé Fan And Case (France), late 19th–early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Painted ivory sticks. Obverse: central cartouche showing a male and female figure in 18th century dress, and two side cartouches containing the implements of music and agriculture. Reverse:…

  • Brisé Fan And Case, early 18th century

    Brisé fan. Ivory sticks painted in oil and finished with Vernis Martin. Obverse: divided into leaf and gorge area, the former decorated with a central cartouche containing an outdoor scene…

  • Frieze (possibly France), 1840

    Almost four complete horizontal repeats of a Gothic arch of stone elaborately carved and heavily enriched with flowers and plant forms. Printed in white and brownish-green on pale green ground.

  • Frieze (France), 1840–45

    A band of alternating oval and rectangular medallions along the upper edge. Below this a long enframed medallion stretching horizontally. Foliate clusters interrupt the latter from above and below at…

  • Frieze (USA), 1900

    Celtic design. Continuous foliate rinceau, the scrolls of which enframe alternately two major motifs (a) a peacock in profile; (b) the heads of two birds addorsed. Greens predominate with lesser…

  • Brisé Fan And Case, late 19th century

    Brisé fan. Painted ivory sticks. Obverse: figures of man and woman in landscape. Gorge and borders in “Vernis Martin” style, showing floral motifs within miniature cartouches. Reverse: landscape without figures.…

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