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Wallpaper - Chinese Pattern

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

ca. 1950

GUSN

GUSN-260128

Description

Red ground; two designs in a Chinese pattern; at lower left figures of a man and a woman standing in front of a tree, rocks, and a pagoda and gate; upper right another man and woman stand in front of a gate with rocks, flowers, and trees; additional rocks and trees appear in upper left and lower right of pattern; pattern colors are green, tan, brown, white and black; sample piece; folded.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
machine-made
figure- and animal-derived motifs
landscape figures
Wallpaper
Wallpaper

Inscription

"(A in circle) U.W.P.C. OF N.A. (F in circle), JOIN (down arrow) (C in circle) UNION MADE (I in circle)" (printed)
"IN (down arrow) HERE, J.C. EISENHART W.P. CO MADE IN U.S. RUN - 111" (printed)

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

16 1/2 x 19 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Elinor Thomas

Accession Number

2002.32.50

Places

Freeport (Cumberland county, Maine)
Maine (United States)
United States

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