A brown-gray ground carries pale-blue rocaille scrollwork enclosing bouquets of pink roses, small orange blossoms, and green foliage arranged in a mirrored vertical composition. The border repeats the same scroll-and-rose vocabulary against a lighter tan ground, framed by narrow striped guard bands in blue, cream, and brown. The overall palette is muted, dominated by dusty blue, ivory, and rose tones against the dark field.
An ivory ground is covered edge to edge in a dense repeating floral lattice, with large red carnations, blush pink peonies, and mustard-gold blossoms linked by curling olive stems and serrated leaves in sage and forest green. The pattern repeats in horizontal bands with alternating motifs, framed by a plain narrow olive-green border. The composition reads as continuous all-over surface decoration with no central medallion or open field.
The field is organized as a lattice of large diamonds, each filled with a small-scale checkerboard of alternating cream and dark navy squares interrupted by pinwheel-like triangular motifs at their centers. The lattice bands themselves carry a finer diaper pattern in the same two tones, and a plain narrow guide line separates the field from a wide border of tight crosshatched diamonds in cream and navy. The palette throughout is limited to cream and near-black navy, giving the whole a graphic, tightly repeating geometry.
Belle Epoque
The field is organized into a diamond lattice, each compartment filled alternately with a rosette of interlaced red and cream tendrils on a sage ground, or with a small cluster of pale blue leaves scattered on ivory. A continuous line of stylized red crosses runs through the guard border, framed by narrow ivory and deep green bands. The palette throughout is muted - olive green, faded red, straw yellow and dusty blue - and the pattern repeats with only slight variation in the density of the interlacing at each rosette.
Louis XVI Period
An ivory ground is overlaid with an undulating lattice of interlaced ribbon-like vines rendered in soft rust, sage green, and cream, forming a repeating pattern of elongated cartouches. Within each compartment sits a single stylized flowering plant, alternately rendered in teal, coral, and muted gold, some crowned with tasseled or bell-shaped blossoms. The scalloped outer edge echoes the curvilinear rhythm of the lattice, giving the whole surface a continuous, mirrored symmetry from top to bottom.
The field is composed of alternating horizontal bands: red stripes carrying a repeating floral scroll in ivory and gold, interspersed with narrow chevron stripes in gray and cream. A slender floral vine border in matching tones frames the field on all four sides, echoing the same red-ground palette and small blossom motifs seen throughout the striped body.
Arts and Crafts
Attributed to Mary 'May' Morris, England ca 1905.
Provenance: Dorris Duke Collection / Newport Restoration Foundation, Rough Point, Newport, RI; Parket-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 3, 1958
An open, softly abraded field in pale gold surrounds a stepped octagonal medallion outlined in faded crimson, its center marked by a small cruciform floral device. Scattered across the field are small rosettes, dotted diamonds, and slender vine tips in the same muted crimson, thinning as they near the border. The border itself carries a continuous row of small triangular serrated forms in red against the same ivory-gold ground.
The field is laid out in an interlocking lattice of pointed medallions rendered in soft gold outlines against an ivory ground, each compartment centered with small rosettes, stars, and diamond forms in mustard, rust, and pale blue. A narrow guard band of stylized blossoms and leaf sprigs frames the field, followed by a wider border of trefoil and floral motifs alternating in muted gold and rust on the same ivory ground. The palette stays consistently pale throughout, with warm ochre and soft blue accents standing out against the light background.
