Cut sample of Chinoiserie-style, machine-printed paper. Pattern of various pagodas (with steps, bridge) and flowering branches. Printed in light and dark blue on white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
The Canton
5550
Hathaway-Cushing-Millay House Main House,
3060
Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)
United States
35 7/16 x 21 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears
1987.128
Thomas Strahan Company Album of Colonial Reproductions 1938 and 1948
United States
Title Accession Number 1987.129a
Title Accession Number 1987.362
Machine Printed
Unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Orientalism
Paper
pagodas
bridge
flowering branches
Chinoiserie
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