Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet including poppies and daisies on a moiré pattern background. Bouquet design is block-printed in three shades of violet, orange, peach, red, brown, five greens, yellow, mustard, fuchsia, white and gray. The background moiré pattern is printed in off white on a white satin ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
12 1/8 x 8 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.161
Block Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Poppy
Daisy
Sprig
Moiré
Sprig
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