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Fragment of flocked wallpaper border decorating fireboard (one of two borders and wallpaper decorating fireboard). Central rosette flanked by two lateral leaves and tendrils. A tongue and dart band runs along the bottom edge. Printed in two grays, white, peach, beige and two browns on a brown ground. See 1969.400B for first border.
wallpapers
wallpapers
painting (image-making)
flock papers
Wallpaper
Used At Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
France
6 x 17 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Bertram K. Little
1969.400C
Block Printed
Flocked
fireboard
Brown
Original
Handmade
Border
Paper
rosettes
leaves
scrolls
medallion
tongue and dart
rope
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