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Unused wallpaper sample. Repeating green parrots in two different poses, one bent over with wings splayed, the other standing straight on with wings splayed, among twisted vines of pomegranates, all on striped embossed gold ground. British paper "Cockatoo and Pomegranate" designed by Walter Crane and probably produced by Jeffrey & Co.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
"SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM / NORWICH, CONN. / 1890"
[in pencil] "454 21 / 30 yd" (Stamp and written)
Cockatoo and Pomegranate
3238
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 (Designer)
Probably Jeffrey & Co.
England, Norwich, CT (use); England
29 3/4 in x 22 3/8 in (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Slater Memorial Museum
2008.6.32
England (United Kingdom) [country]
England
Title 2008.6.99 Accession Number 2008.6.1
Block Printed
unused
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Art Nouveau
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