Two fragments of wallpaper border still attached to sidewall paper from Medford, Massachusetts. Floral Arts and Crafts style ceiling border cut out around the pattern's lower edge. Roller-printed in green, white, and red with silver and gold sparkles on blue ground applied to oatmeal paper. Sidewall paper has no pattern, also blue ground on oatmeal paper.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
ceiling papers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
Arts and Crafts (movement)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"From Mrs. David J. Sargent / 164 Ashcroft Rd. / Medford / Mass 02153" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
Germany
7 5/8 x 25 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.420AB
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Border
Oatmeal
flowers
leaves
sparkles
shading
Arts and Crafts
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