Unused wallpaper sample. Asian style, themed Scenic Figure paper made in Germany for the French market. Pattern is block-printed in black on yellow ground and embossed. Scenes include a figure on horseback, figures with umbrellas, a pagoda with attached raised walkway, a bridge over lily pads and ducks swimming.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
embossed wall coverings
Orientalism
Wallpaper
"FOREIGN FABRICATION ALLEMANDE" (translation from French: foreign German manufacture)
"[downpointing arrow] NORTA 527" (pattern name?)
Norta
527
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
Germany
32 1/4 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.211
Block Printed
unused
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
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