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Fragment of wallpaper from a home on Wellington Street, South Boston, Massachusetts. Art Nouveau style floral damask embossed on dark bronze ground. Flowers and stems form an ogee pattern. The pattern is embossed on a dark bronze ground. The pattern's embossed outline resembles stitching and its interior is embossed with fine diagonal ribbing. The background is embossed with ribbing in the opposite diagonal and horizontal.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
Wallpaper
"Wellington / Main Parlors / Second Paper" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To 4 Wellington Street (South End, Boston, MA), Parlor
Unknown
29 1/2 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.304
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
floral
ogee
Art Nouveau
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