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Wallpaper Frieze Design

c.1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a wallpaper frieze depicting three pairs of birds standing beneath three sprigs of foliage: rose, honesty and thistles. The pairs of birds hold lengths of red cord with tassled ends in their beaks.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour, on paper
Brief description
Design by C. F. A. Voysey for a wallpaper frieze, showing pairs of birds and three plants, London, about 1900
Physical description
Design for a wallpaper frieze depicting three pairs of birds standing beneath three sprigs of foliage: rose, honesty and thistles. The pairs of birds hold lengths of red cord with tassled ends in their beaks.
Credit line
Given by C.F.A Voysey by request of the Museum
Object history
This frieze may be paired with the wallpaper 'Feudal' E.309-1974
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Oman, Charles C. and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Collection
Accession number
E.269-1913

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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