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Two floral flocked border fragments from the Abraham Capen House in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Dark red dahlia flowers framed by a yellow cartouche. Block-printed in orange, yellow and maroon with olive and red flocking overprinted in green, blue, black, red and light brown. White ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
flocking
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Border of parlor / Abraham Capen / S[?] / 1840" (handwritten)
"From old Abraham Capen house / Dorchester, Mass. / (Given me by lawyer Harold Nash of Dedham / executor of estate)" (handwritten)
"From Abraham Capen house / Dorchester / Early border paper / Excellent color" (handwritten)
"Beautiful border / paper with flock / effect - from old / house in Dorchester, Mass" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
4 3/8 x 18 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.389AB
Possibly France
Block Printed
Flocked
wall fragment
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
dahlia
cartouche
shadow
Floral
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