Swedish Inspired

Polonaise Technique

An olive-brown field carries an overall lattice of scrolling stems that link palmettes and rosettes rendered in cream, pale blue, and ochre. A soft ivory band frames the field before giving way to a wider brown border filled with the same undulating floral scrollwork, all enclosed by narrow guard stripes in tan and cream.

Polonaise Technique

Provenance: Estate of Pauline L. Harrison

Provenance: Herrgard utanfor Gavle

A pale grey-blue field is organized by a lattice of fine ivory lines that link palmette-like cartouches in salmon and rust, alternating with serrated leaf forms and small rosettes. Notched shield motifs and star medallions punctuate the intersections, giving the interior a scattered, all-over rhythm rather than a single central focus. The wide border repeats a cream ground carrying a meandering floral vine in coral, olive, and gold, framed by narrower guard stripes of stylized rosettes.

The sage-green field carries a large-scale lattice of palmettes and serrated leaf forms in coral red, saffron yellow and ivory, arranged in a mirrored, symmetrical composition around a central diamond medallion. A wide green border echoes the palette with rosettes and angular vinework, framed by narrow guard stripes of small stylized blossoms, and the four corners of the outer border are anchored by bold red cartouche-like devices.

An open sand-colored field centers on a lobed medallion of coral, gold, and pink quartered blossoms suspended from a small pendant above and anchored below by a scrolling floral pendant with flanking cloudband forms. The wide border presents a repeating lattice of cartouches filled with pink and cream rosettes against a soft coral ground, framed by narrower guard stripes of angular latch-hook motifs. Faint corner cloudbands echo the medallion's palette, and the abrash across the field shifts gently from warm beige to pale ivory.

An ivory field carries a symmetrical arrangement of scrolling palmettes and serrated leaf forms rendered in soft rust, apricot and muted olive tones, anchored by a central diamond medallion flanked by twin columnar pendants. The main border, a warm terracotta ground with a continuous vine of angular blossoms, is framed by narrower guard stripes in pale sage and cream, echoing the field's palette. Corner brackets in matching tones resolve the border scheme at each angle, and the pile shows areas of lighter abrash where the ground tone shifts subtly.

A soft sage-green ground is covered in an all-over lattice of small palmettes, rosettes, and pear-shaped blossoms rendered in rust, dusty rose, and pale blue. The wide rust-colored border carries a running vine with paired leaf forms and scattered floral heads, framed by narrow guard stripes in cream and slate blue. The corners of the border resolve the vine pattern symmetrically, and knotted fringe is visible at both ends.

An open ivory field carries a slender central medallion drawn as a tall pendant lozenge with small pointed finials trailing above and below, flanked by faint scattered floral sprigs rendered in soft coral and muted olive. Scalloped corner spandrels in coral and sand echo the medallion's palette, framed by a broad coral border filled with alternating palmettes and serrated leaf forms, bordered by a narrow patterned guard stripe. The overall coloring stays within a gentle range of ivory, coral, and faded gold, with the design left airy and loosely spaced across the ground.