In the 19th century, itinerant artists traveled from town to town offering their services to decorate houses with murals, stenciling, and/or painted faux finishes. This amazing swaged frieze detail is from a remarkable room from the Alexander Shaw House. A modest North Carolina dwelling, its rooms were painted in 1836 to simulate costly building materials such as cabinet-grade wood and polished stone. Paint decoration at the top of the walls resembled the exuberant wallpaper borders of that day. The room is exhibited at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Colonial Williamsburg.
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