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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.

  • Scenic, Serenade, 1948–50

    The left panel from a set of two panels. A courtyard fantasy. Around a trellised gate children play guitars and other musical instruments. A pavement and wall stretch away at…

  • 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…

  • Scenic, “Le Jardin d’Armide” [The Garden of Armida], 1854

    “a”: Irregular-shaped fragment showing portion of a free-standing arcade with Corinthian columns, around which grow wisteria and other vines in large scale. Across top is trellis with pink roses; “b”…

  • Frieze (France), 1820–40

    Yellow consoles in the form of winged putti with acanthus bases support a cornice. Alternating with these figures are vertical octagons, green, yellow and red, containing wreaths. Heavy chiaroscuro. “d”…

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