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Wallpaper border or frieze from Bernardston, Massachusetts. Wall fragment still attached to wallpaper, see 2001.281.293.2. Vine and floral figures wrap around cylinder with Greek key pattern. Block-printed in orange, black, blue and gray with green and gray stenciling on white or off-white ground. Wove paper in partial sheets.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Freize from a house in Bernardston, Mass. / The original wallcovering was given / by B. Scott to K & W - who reproduced / it for Williamsburg Collection" / "[sidewall, not border, was a Williamsburg reproduction / RCN]" (Original inscription in ballpoint pen. RCN postscript in brackets written in pencil.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
5 1/8 x 29 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.293.1
Bernardston (Franklin county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.293.2
Block Printed
Stenciled
wall fragment
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Wove
Paper
cylindar
greek key
floral
vine
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