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Fragments cut from the top (fragments "A-E") and bottom (fragments "F-I") of an unused Chinese wallpaper panel. Handpainted birds and peacocks perched amid flowering tree with butterflies, white ground. Originally from the Captain Edward Carrington House, Providence, Rhode Island.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
hand-painted
Wallpaper
"Scraps from / my old Chinese panel" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Edward Carrington House (Providence, R.I.),
Unknown
China
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.241.A-I
Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island)
Title Carrington House Wallpaper Panel Accession Number 2010.91.1
Hand Painted
unused
White
Original
Handmade
Paper
birds
butterflies
flowers
branches
China Trade
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