Fragment of unused wallpaper. Anglo-Japanese style foliate pattern. Two vines of leaves and berries, on in solid black, form an all-over foliate pattern which overlaps stylized red flowers and angular geometric forms. Pattern does not have a strong directional orientation, may have been used as a ceiling or sidewall paper. Roller-printed in yellow, red, black and dark olive on olive ground. Straight repeat.
wallpapers
ceiling papers
paper (fiber product)
Anglo-Japanese
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
25 1/2 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.194
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Paper
foliate
leaves
berries
flowers
geometric
Anglo-Japanese
Foliate
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