Sidewall (possibly France)

Unknown artist

1880–90

block-printed paper, embossed, hand-rubbed oil finish

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A wallpaper design features a large, vertically symmetrical foliate pattern embossed to imitate leather, with gilded fill patterns and scattered floral motifs. Imitation leather. On light gray-green background, embossed in imitation of leather, large curving foliate pattern, vertically symmetrical along central palmette in brown, with gilded ornamental fill patterns, this palmette enframed in leafy S-curves. Three feathers of junctuire of two opposed S-curves. Scattered symmetrically, blue and white and orange-red and white flower with green leaves. At edges of length, halves of patterns which, joined, form vase of horn containing flowers.