Frieze (France), 1800–1805

Dado pattern of five brightly-colored horizontal bandings. Bottom to top: 1) narrow gold and brown geometric architectural border; 2) gray diamonds; 3) principal banding – pale blue marbleized ground with black decorative circles around yellow and brown winged cupids playing with butterflies. Foliage and palmette ornament, black lyre; 4)banding of bright marbleized green with gold and brown bosses, circles, and black palmettes; 5) black simplified acanthus leaves over band shading from yellow to brown.