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Four wallpaper fragments from Barnstable, Massachusetts. Gold striped wallpaper resembling an embossed Gilt-Figure wallpaper. Roller-printed in metallic gold stripes and figures over delicate line pattern in white on gray ground. The clearest figures are small vases containing wheat stalks. Others figures appear to be floral sprigs. Paper is not embossed.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
stripes
Wallpaper
"Barnstable / Harris" (handwritten)
Harris
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
21 1/2 x 17 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.279.1A-D
Barnstable (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.279.2
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.279.2
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
sprigs
vases
wheat
Stripe
Gilt Figure
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