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Fragment of unused wallpaper from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Anglo-Japanese style pattern featuring stylized floral figures in boxes of varying sizes. Three primary figures: a yellow flowering plant on a blue background; a red flowering plant with drooping blooms on a dark olive background; and a four-leaf clover medallion radiating flower buds. Roller-printed in two browns, red, yellow, purple, pale blue and peach on olive ground. Marked "AWPMA. 8658, Double Roll" in selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Anglo-Japanese
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"From / Mrs. Alfred Hall / Nantucket" (handwritten)
"A.W.P.M.A. [in scroll logo] / 8658 DOUBLE ROLL" (printed)
8658
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
18 x 19 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.442
1880-1887 (Based on AWPMA logo)
United States
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowering Plants
Four leaf clover
sprigs
b
buds
Anglo-Japanese
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