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Unused wallpaper fragment. Bouquet and sprig pattern. Large bouquets of pink and white apple blossoms alternate with small sprigs of violet flowers. Block-printed in twenty-four colors: yellow, white, three olives, four greens, red, two pinks, three mauves, three browns, blue, aqua, four violets and orange on a gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
34 1/2 x 20 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.216
Possibly France
Block Printed
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Apple blossom
flower
sprig
bouquet
Sprig
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