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Unused fragment of Anglo-Japanese style wallpaper from the Old Standish House in Dighton, Massachusetts. Geometric shapes and stylized flowers create asymmetrical pattern typical of Anglo-Japanese designs. Paper is embossed with a woven, or fabric-like, texture and roller-printed in metallic gold, two olive greens, three browns, ochre, pale blue and pale green on light olive ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
Anglo-Japanese
Wallpaper
"Front Hall papers from / Old Standish House built in / 1800 by David Standish, / great grandfather of / Mrs. Mary Standish Miller. / This paper put on in 1886 / when renovated by Mrs. / Miller's father, James Carver / Standish. / Now occupied by Director / of B.C. Agrie [?] High Sch. / Dighton, Mass." (written by Mrs. Mary Standish Miller / B.C. Agrie High Sch = Bristol County Agricultural High School.)
1426
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To
Unknown
23 3/4 x 19 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.385
1886 (Year paper was installed.)
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
flowers
leaves
geometric
greek key
Anglo-Japanese
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