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Object Timeline

1953	Work on this object began.
1954	We acquired this object.
2011	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Sidewall, Harlequin

This is a sidewall. It was manufactured by Pageant Wallpaper. It is dated 1953 and we acquired it in 1954. Its medium is screen-printed on paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

It is credited Gift of B.H. Hellman.

The poster, when divided in half horizontally is a mirror image pattern with the words 'Spitzen der Wiener Werkstatte' in the center. At the top and bottom are left and right boxes of repeating black diamonds in straight lines. Dividing these two boxes is an image of three blooms with stems and branching leaves in the foreground and two blooms at the top corners, with a cracked pattern in the background, reminenscent of stained glass. This image is mirrored in reverse at the bottom of the poster. Solid triangle borders cover the top and bottom of the poster and it is signed at the bottom, D. Peche.

Poster, Spitzen der Wiener Werkstätte (Wiener Werkstätte Lacework)
lithograph on off-white paper.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
2002-19-1

Its dimensions are

83 x 77 cm (32 11/16 x 30 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in left selvedge: Harlequin / Timely Service, Inc.

Cite this object as

Sidewall, Harlequin; Manufactured by Pageant Wallpaper; USA; screen-printed on paper; 83 x 77 cm (32 11/16 x 30 5/16 in.); Gift of B.H. Hellman; 1954-21-10

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CiWR/
Accession Number 1954-21-10
Object ID 18400897