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Wallpaper

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

GUSN

GUSN-176830

Description

Wallpaper border fragment printed in two pinks, two browns, green, and white on an ochre ground. There is a twisted form which runs the length of the border and looks like cable moulding or ropework. Circular rosettes and thick jagged white lines are placed within the rope form.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
Wallpaper

Associated Building

Goddard-Watson-Davenport-Stimson House (Cambridge, Mass.), Parlor

Additional Identification Number

396

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

United States

Dimensions

3 x 3 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of William Sumner Appleton

Accession Number

1922.27B

Places

United States

Related Items

Title Accession Number 1922.27a&c
Title Accession Number 1922.26a-c

Wallpaper Details

Print Technique

Block Printed

Ground Color

Ochre

Type

Handmade

Use

Border

Paper Finish

Laid

Medium

Paper

Decor Motif

Cable moulding/ropework
rosettes

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