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Wallpaper Fragment

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1880-1900

GUSN

GUSN-103495

Description

Unused sample. Scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers and bell-flower chains surrounding a central urn holding a bouquet of flowers. Printed in two pinks, two blues, two greens, two browns, and mauve on a tan ground with horizontal dark stripes to imitate a textile.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
fragments
WALLPAPER

Inscription

"SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM / NORWICH, CONN. / 1890"
"15194"
[in pencil] "Right / English" (Stamp and written)

Additional Identification Number

3223

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Norwich, CT (use)

Dimensions

19 1/2 in x 21 1/2 in (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Slater Memorial Museum

Accession Number

2008.6.17

Related Items

Title 2008.6.99 Accession Number 2008.6.1

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