Framed Chinoiserie wallpaper sample. Appears to be a pattern of two alternating scenes. In the first, a woman serves tea to a man sitting on a porch. In the second, the woman looks on as the man fishes and a boy flies a kite. Both scenes also include birds, plants, a river, and bridges. Roller printed in greens, pinks, reds, purples, browns, black, and white on ungrounded paper. Mounted in a plain black wooden frame.
wallpapers
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Old Chinese Wallpaper / from the Greene Homestead / Hopkinton, N.H. (typed)
Original To Greene Homestead,
Unknown
45 1/8 x 22 1/8 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Concord Art Association
2007.9.1
France
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1923.314
Machine Printed
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Paper
pagoda
stork
peacock
kite
bridge
Chinoiserie
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