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Partial roll of wallpaper. Two columns of joined classical motifs including a bouquet of flowers in an urn, bead and drapery swags, grisaille classical figures, fruit, berries and tassels. Printed in two greens, yellow, orange, red, pink, two purples, maroon and two greys.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
259
Unknown
France
22 7/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of Herbert Browne
1917.145B
Bernard Jacques, "Les Papiers Peints en Arabesque," p. 156. Catalog # IIB13.
France
Title Accession Number 1917.145a
Title Accession Number 1917.148
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.959AB
Block Printed
Unused
Brown
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Classicism
Laid
Paper
swags
urn
bead
bouquet
drapery swag
tassel
fruit
flower
berry
Neoclassical
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