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Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet and sray pattern. Bouquets of pink and violet flowers and grasses alternate with small sprays of pink flowers and smaller sprays of violet flowers. Block-printed in metallic gold, tan, yellow, two browns, two grays, three pinks, olive, four greens, black and four violets on gray ground. Selvedges are painted light gray over the ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Very Good" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
22 1/2 x 19 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.219
Possibly France
Block Printed
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Bouquet
spray
flowers
grasses
Sprig
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