Cable Chain Egg and Dart
Floret Border Lamb's Tongue Border
Mock Flock Border Otis Federal Chain
Palmette Border Réveillon Border
Rose and Sprig Border Sawtooth and Guilloche
Sayre Arcade Sayre Sawtooth
Festoon Border Greek Key Border
Hermitage Leaf Border Lilac Border
Orbes Directoire Ribbon Border
Anthemion Frieze Egyptian Frieze
Garland and Tassel Grapevine Frieze
 
Virchaux Swan Frieze  

 



English circa 1768

This narrow border was hung with a plain ground paper in the 1768 Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The "egg and dart" form was taken directly from classical sources, where it is found decorating a variety of ancient structures. The British Neo-Palladian style of the early-18th century adopted the Egg and Dart as part of its standard vocabulary of architectural ornamentation.

Narrow borders such as these were typically placed on all margins of sidewall paper installations, used to wrap door and window architraves, and to outline the vertical and horizontal margins of wall surfaces.

This pattern is licensed to Adelphi Paper Hangings by the Marblehead Museum & Historic Society.

Width 1¾ inches