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Two fragments of Renaissance Revival floral stripe wallpaper from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Small climbing vines of multi-colored flowers grows up a gray vertical stripe that runs along the left side of roll. The rest of the roll is printed with gray strapwork and scrolls forming loose medallions draped with floral swags and hanging vines Block-printed in green, mauve, brown, orange, blue and gray on a white polished ground. Straight repeat.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Renaissance Revival
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Clapp House / Dorchester" (handwritten)
"Clapp - Dorchester" (Dorothy Waterhouse note?)
"G7s" (Waterhouse pattern reference?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Clapp House,
Unknown
34 1/4 x 21 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.93AB
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1189
Machine Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
floral
sprig
stripe
scroll
swag
dots
strapwork
medallion
vines
Renaissance Revival
Floral Stripe
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