Fragment. Small scale diaper pattern. Black wavy lines framing orange circle and black dots on blue ground. Straight match.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Front Hall
862
A.H. Davenport/Irving & Casson
Alfred Peats Co. (Manufacturer)
Boston
17 x 12 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Museum Accession
1966.462A
Wallpaper in New England; p. 65, fig. 11.1. Agreeable Situations; Laura Sprague, pp. 145-6.
1785-1800 (1786, date house completed)
Probably Massachusetts (United States)
Probably Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Accession Number 1966.462B
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
ribbon
star
Diaper Pattern
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