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Two wallpaper fragments from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Rococo Revival floral pattern in pink, red, green, blue and purple with scrolls and beads in tan and background stripes in gray. Roller-printed on white satin ground. Straight repeat.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Dorchester - Clapp House" (handwritten)
"Dorchester - Clapp - Duplicate" (handwritten)
"G71" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Clapp House,
Unknown
34 1/4 x 19 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.94AB
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1186
Machine Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Floral
Scroll
stripe
Rococo
Beads
Rococo Revival
Floral Medallion
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