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Cut sample of Chinoiserie-style, machine-printed wallpaper. Pattern of vines, flowering branches, pagodas and bridge. Printed in white, black and light pink on beige ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
The Canton
5550
Hathaway-Cushing-Millay House Main House,
3061
United Wall Paper Crafters of North America (1923-1958)
Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)
United States
35 1/2 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears
1987.129
Thomas Strahan Company Album of Colonial Reproductions 1938 and 1948
United States
Title Accession Number 1987.362
Title Accession Number 1987.128a
Machine Printed
Unused
Beige
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Orientalism, China trade
Paper
pagoda
bridge
flowering branch
Chinoiserie
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