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Unused roll of wallpaper. Two columns of classical motifs, including urn with bouquet of flowers, swag of beads, drapery swags, fruit, berries and grisaille figures. Block printed in two greens, yellow, orange, red, piink, purple, maroon and two greys.
wallpapers
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Gift of Herbert Browne / 10 May 1917 / Upright Borders / Black Ground (handwritten on verso: "Gift of Herbert Browne/10 May 1917" "Upright Borders/Black Ground")
258
Unknown
France
22 7/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of Herbert Browne
1917.145A
Bernard Jacques, "Les Papiers Peints en Arabesque," pg. 156. Catalog # IIB13.
France
Title Accession Number 1917.145b
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
fruit
flower
tassel
berry
Neoclassical
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