Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet and stripe pattern. Large bouquets of violet pansies and lavender alternate with smaller bouquets of the same. Stripes of metallic gold pindots run behind the bouquets. Block-printed in pink, two violets, lavender, three greens, two blue-greens, yellow, tan and metallic gold on brown ground. The selvedges are painted a light brown over the ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
23 3/8 x 19 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.218
Possibly France
Block Printed
unused
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
bouquet
pansy
lavender
floral
pindot
stripe
Sprig
Floral
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