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Unused sample. Pattern of scrolling vines and fruit embellished with serpents and winged dragons. Stenciled in dark red on gilt ground. Embossed and lacquered.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
1960
A.H. Davenport/Irving & Casson
Unknown
Japan
27 3/4 x 36 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Ellis, Sr.
1981.156
Catherine Lynn's book has a photograph from an advertisement of the English firm Rottman, Strome and Co.'s Japanese Leather Papers that was originally published in the "Journal of Decorative Art" (April 1884). "Wallpaper in New England," pg. 243-245. fig
Japan
Title Accession Number 1981.155
Title Accession Number 1961.371.1&2
Stenciled
Unused
Gold
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Gilt; Lacquered
Japanese Leather
scrolling vines and fruit
winged dragons and serpents
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