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Square wooden box (A) with lid (B). Wallpaper covers edges, corners and rim of box. Paper cut to less than one inch width, cut in fan shape for corners. Paper is a block-printed white dot and floral design on blue ground. The underside of the lid is covered in a geometric pattern in green, gray and black cut and pasted with paper from outer box wallpaper designs cut and pasted on top.
boxes (containers)
wood (plant material)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Box
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
2001.316AB
Unknown
1 3/16 x 11 1/8 x 11 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.36AB
Block Printed
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Paper
geometric
dot
Floral
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