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Unused samples. An Aesthetic/Baroque design with heavy and dense flowers and foliage, primarily sunflowers. Looks like carved and molded plastic. Embossed and stenciled in tan on a grey ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
2144
1956
A.H. Davenport/Irving & Casson
Unknown
Japan
32 5/8 x 36 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Ellis, Sr.
1981.151AB
"Wallpaper in New England, " fig. 70.5, pg. 245-246. Oman & Hamilton, fig. 106, pg. 373 (Morris's "Sunflower" pattern of 1879)
Japan
Stenciled
Unused
Grey
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Japanese Leather
sunflowers
grapes
winding leaves
vines
Aesthetic
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