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Two partial rolls and one fragment of Japanese Leather wallpaper from Boston retailer A.H. Davenport. "Peacocks and Amorini" pattern designed by Walter Crane features arabasque motifs with putti, peacocks, comedy tragedy masks, trophy, floral garland and scrolling flora. Stenciled in green on gold ground. Roll (A) has had a number of squares cut from it, fragment (B) may be one of those squares. Roll (C) is intact.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Peacock and Amorini
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
A.H. Davenport (Retailer)
Probably Rottman & Co. (Importer)
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 (Designer)
Japan
22 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.123A-C
1887 (date of design)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Stenciled
unused
Green
Original
Machine Made
Classical
Embossed
Japanese Leather
putti
mouse
peacock
trophy
urn
swag
tragedy comedy masks
foliate
scroll
horn of plenty
pheonix
parrot
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