Unused fragment. Japanese leather paper with a pattern of large, undulating vines, pomegranates, grapes, sunflowers, birds and strapwork. Stenciled in red on gilt ground, embossed and lacquered.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
1962
A.H. Davenport/Irving & Casson
Probably Morton, W. Scott
Japan
48 1/4 x 36 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Ellis, Sr.
1981.158
Maple & Co., "About Our Homes," pg. 26. "Wallpaper in New England," fig. 48, pg. 165, 245.
Japan
Title Accession Number 1981.157
Title Accession Number 1961.339
Title Accession Number 2000.672
Stenciled
Unused
Gold
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Gilt; Lacquered
Japanese Leather
vines
pomegranates
grapes
sunflowers
birds
strapwork
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