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  

 



French circa 1820-30

This frieze was discovered in the front parlor of a Greek Revival farmhouse in Schuylerville New York, along with Adelphi's Vine and Paisley pattern and the Greek Key Border. All three papers were printed by Jacquemart et Bernard. The frieze demonstrates a return to less abstract, more organic motifs typical of French papers in the 1820s and 1830s.

In the Schuylerville installation, the frieze was printed directly over the paisley pattern of the sidewall paper. This technique was often used in highly refined French papers, as well as in papers produced by French émigré printers like Virchaux, who worked in Philadelphia in the 1810s.

Adelphi can provide the frieze separately, on a plain ground as it is pictured here, or on the Vine & Paisley pattern, as in the original.

Repeat 18 inches
Width 638 inches