Wallpaper fragment from Stoughton, Massachusetts. Wide, large scale striped pattern. One stripe features alternating vignettes of a red urn with a green marble ashlar. The vignettes of this stripe are framed in borders with c-scrolls. The other stripe is alternating ashlars of gray and green marble framed in red. The background is printed with an elaborate diaper pattern. Printed in white, two greens, two grays, red, and brown on a cream satin ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
stripes
Wallpaper
"Grandma E / Glazed" (handwritten)
Unknown
38 1/2 x 21 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Frank D. Ellison
1935.980
Machine Printed
Polished
unused
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Ashlar
Marble
c-scroll
scroll
Urn
diaper
stripe
Marble
Stripe
Renaissance Revival
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