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Wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Large fragment of fresco wallpaper upright, or Montant, decorated with a vertical border on left side and a central stripe ornamentation consisting of a fruit bowl alternating with a fountain framed by a pillar and arch. Printed in white, tan, brown, and dark brown on gray ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Woodward, Mrs.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With Flint Farm (Middleton, MA),
Unknown
39 x 21 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.113
Middleton (Essex county, Massachusetts)
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
fruit
fountain
bowl
pillar and arch
dolphin
Fresco paper
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