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Slate ground with leafy green branches forming a diagonal network. The latter enframes a repeating motif, a large cluster of fruit: pomegranates,melons, grapes, the color of which is pink in one vertical series, the adjoining vertical series being off-white.

Sidewall, Bountiful Harvest, 1946
machine-printed, embossed.
Gift of H. Christian Rohlfing.
1954-151-3

This object was made by United Wallpaper, Inc..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Design of a branch with fruit and leaves in pink coral, mounted on gold, with a gold ring at the top.

Pendant (Italy), ca. 1850
coral, gold.
Gift of the estate and in memory of Robert B. Noyes.
1946-50-21

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Vertical rectangle showing a dense grotesque scene with figures with fantastic anthropomorphic figures, flora and fauna.

Print, Ornamental Design, ca. 1550
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1944-76-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Vertical rectangle showing a symmetrical grotesque design composed of camels, acanthus leaves and fruit.

Print, Plate, from Ornamenti o Grottesche (Ornaments or Grotesques), ca. 1653
etching on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-152-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Two knives, their points facing downward. The carved handles show grotesque figures. At left, a woman supported by a putto kisses a human head held by a serpent-woman. At right, an oval medallion with a nude below a nude male with a cornucopia.

Print, Design for Two Knife Handles, 1583
engraving on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-350-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Acanthus scrolls; above center, a head. Below, a bucranium. Either side, dolphins with acanthus tails. In cartouche, writing.

Print, Grotesque Panel with Dolphins, 1527
engraving on laid paper.
Gift of Leo Wallerstein.
1949-29-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Ornamental cartouche, right, composed of an auricular, cartilage-like form showing a grotesque mask, edged in bead-work and feathers. At left, a snail-like animal being pushed forward by an ox with feathers for horns.

Print, Plate 30, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), 1610
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
1957-162-29

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Ornamental design showing a winged and bearded figure, wearing a fanciful plumed hat, and riding on the back of a snail which terminates in an ox. Another snail form, left, and a bisected pear with a face, right.

Print, Plate 32, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), 1610
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
1957-162-30

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical rectangle. Ewer, with snakes entwining a nude man as handles and neck. He blows a conch shell, with a plate being held by a child beside it. The body is decorated with rinceaux and terms. Inscribed below: "ROMAE AB ANTIQVO REPERTVM MD XXXXIII" and "A.E.V." on a tablet.

Print, Vase (Plate 5 of a Series), 1543
black ink on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of E.F. Caldwell & Co..
1963-9-244

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Grotesque ornament with masks, putti and fantastic anaimals. In the center, a plaque displays the Medici arms. Below, the word: SEMPER.

Drawing, Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy,...
brush and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper, squared in black chalk.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-7321

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Scrollwork frames a mask and clusters of flowers protrude from the sides at top. Below, two masks (a lion on the left and a man on the right) are presented above grapes and flowers.

Print, Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of...
punch engraving, pen and black ink, graphite on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A scrollwork frieze with a cherub in the center above. Female and male masks and palmette in lower section.

Print, Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of...
punch engraving, pen and black ink, graphite on cream laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-15

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Scrollwork frieze with a head with a feather headgear in the center. A mustached mask with feather gear, a cherub mask, and a bunch of fruit below.

Print, Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of...
punch engraving, pen and black ink, graphite on cream laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-17

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A scrollwork frieze surrounds a fantastic animal mask ornamented with feathered headgear. Below a cluster of fruits and scrollwork, a seed flower hangs flanked by two additional masks.

Print, Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of...
punch engraving, pen and black ink, graphite on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-19

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Vertical grotesque design with putti, grape vines and a central candelabrum motif.

Print, Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines, 1532
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1944-82-1-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

At center, a scene of Hercules rescuing his wife Deianira from the Centaur Nessus is flanked by term figures hold a garland of fruit. Above, a pair of fantastic animals.

Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Scene from Ovid, 1566
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1944-83-6-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangles showing a strapwork design. At center, a scene of Juno talking to Jupiter. Ignudi and masks flank the scene. At bottom, a cartouche with the inscription “H.COCK EX / 1566”.

Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, 1566
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1944-83-6-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical rectangle showing strapwork design. At center, Prometheus on Mount Caucasus. Above, a pair of satyrs holding clusters of fruit. Below, putti with masks and an owl.

Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, 1566
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1944-83-7-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical rectangle showing strapwork design. At center, Perseus rescuing Andromeda. Above, pairs of snakes and swans flank a nude. Below, fish and lions.

Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, 1566
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1944-83-7-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

At center a mask with sinister expression. Below it, arms (sword, spear, etc) around helmet in basin that is decorated with two animal masks. Above, vase with fruit and plants. All bordered by putti above holding vines with fruit and leaves, griffins with female head at center, and biomorphic figures at bottom.

Print, Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures, 1550
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1945-59-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Horizontal oval within horizontal rectangle. In an animal-grotesque field the medallion depcits a seated women eats a fruit in a garden.

Print, Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
blackwork engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-1-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical rectangle showing the back of a hand mirror. The central scene shows Medea fleeing Corinth in a chariot drawn by winged dragons, which belonged to her grandfather Helios. Below, Medea rejuvenates Jason’s father Aeson.The frame design is densely composed of strapwork and female figures. At top, an enthroned woman. Pearls hang from the frame on either side.

Print, Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea, 1561
engraving on white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1946-13-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The edges of the sheet are framed by candelabra and strapwork frame (rendered in half form) and composed of a variety of swags and animals. A saytr at right faces left and holds a swag; a fantastic animal crouches at left and at bottom of sheet walks left carring a bunch of flowers and is followed by a goose.

Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration, mid–late 16th century
pen and brown ink on laid paper, mounted on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and....
1994-64-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Vertical oval in rectangle showing a grotesque designs on a black ground. At center, under a baldacchino, Juno stands surrounded by scrolls, fantastic creatures, vases, and fruits.

Print, Juno, from the series Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et...
engraving on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-3-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical oval in rectangle showing a grotesque designs on a black ground. At center, under a baldacchino, is standing the divinity Athena surrounded by scrolls, fantastic creatures, vases, and fruits.

Print, Athena, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories...
engraving on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-3-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Two vertical columns with bowls of fruit resting on flower filled cornucopias, with curving, feathery acanthus. In light pink on a dark pink ground.

Textile (France), 1925
silk.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund and through gift of various donors.
1990-128-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Partial design for serving platter; border of light orange with handle, and black vines; then a blue scalloped border, containing yellow bird on a branch of red berries and green leaves against a black ground.

Drawing, Design for a Platter, 1880–1910
brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on cream paper.
1985-14-26

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A vase filled with fruit at center towards which two kneeling, confronted maidens reach. They are dressed in flowing classical robes. A stylized Ionic column marks the horizontal repeat. A fabric is draped from the volutes between the two columns. The fabric, trimmed with a Greek key motif with anthemia in the corner, is printed in grisaille with light olive green highlights. A floral garland runs along the top edge while a cable twist runs along the bottom. Printed in grisaille with yellow and ocher.

Dado (France), ca. 1810
block-printed on handmade paper.
Gift of John Judkyn in memory of his mother, Florence Judkins.
1953-213-1-a,b

This object was made by Joseph Dufour et Cie..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

One of a set of five panels for a fold-up screen. The other designs in the series include Rocaille (Rock Garden); Hommage Champêtre (Pastorale); and Léda (Leda and the Swan), all etched by Claude Duflos; and Triomphe de Pomone (Triumph of Pomona) etched by Charles Nicolas Cochin the Younger. Shell motif at top. Three putti grasping at berries in the upper portion of the design, to the right of a herm in the personification of Priapus, protector of orchards and gardens, which is at left. Cypress trees at right. Two putti pulling a goat on top of stairs and other putti both helping with the goat and holding berries. Panel framed with leaves, branches and berries.

Print, Triomphe de Priape (Triumph of Priapus), from Nouveaux morceaux pour...
etching and engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-203-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Flat purse with a drawstring top; one face has a bouquet of flowers, the other a basket of flowers. The sides and top are decorated with a deep edging of fruit, flowers, and animals, including a camel. In polychrome silks over white satin. An example of a type of needle knotting called oya, practiced in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Purse, early 19th century
silk, wire; silk lining.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf.
1951-105-19

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Kingfisher plaque of conventional fruit or leaf design in openwork. Silk-covered wire on back for attachment to Manchu head-dress.

Hair Ornament (China), ca. 1900
kingfisher feathers, lacquer, silk-covered wire.
Gift of William Dangaix Allen.
1939-73-11

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

New stainless steel blade, straight-sided, upper edge curving towards the point; plain bolster. Plain silver ferrule, tapering. Carved ivory handle, a nude woman on one side of the handle, a nude man on the other side. In between them a dolphin and a decorative pattern with flowers, fruit, a human face, curls and a stylized lion opening his mouth.

Knife (possibly Germany), ca. 1700–1800
ivory, silver, stainless steel.
The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
1985-103-175

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Length of printed cotton with a naturalistic design with nasturtiums, passion flower, and other flowers, foliage, and vines crossing and intertwining. The design appears in white on a rich indigo blue ground with etched details in blue.

Textile (England), 1790s
cotton.
Gift of Harold M. Bailey.
1960-79-20

This object was made by Bromley Hall.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Oblong vertical hanging with a pomegranate tree in the center. A man carrying a basket of pomegranates on his head stands to the right of the tree. The borders are a repeat of pointed niche arches. In violet, light grey and red on an ivory ground. Lined with light rose cotton plain weave.

Hanging, Syrian Pomegranate Tree, 1919–26
silk.
Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
1974-23-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Suspended napkins, each containing fruit and flower. Grapes, pear and strawberries alternate with banana, something red and something green. Printed in black, red, green and tan on cream ground.

Sidewall, Napkin and Fruit, 1926
lithograph after linocut.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1996-32-1

This object was made by The Curwen Press.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.