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Fragment. Alternating rows of black urns with blue, oval fields framed by wreaths and connected by bell flower swags tied with bow knots. Printed on yellow ochre ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
printing ink
Wallpaper
Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
446
Unknown
United States
30 3/8 x 19 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Henry Vaughan
1923.4
Wallpaper in New England, p. 60, fig. 9.2
1785-1790 (1787 - year Hamilton House was built)
United States
Title Accession Number 1923.4B
Block Printed
Stenciled
Wall Fragment
Ochre
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
swag
urn
bow knot
pine cone
Neoclassical
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