Wallpaper fragment from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style allover foliate pattern with stylized fruit and flowers. Persian stylistic influences. Roller-printed in light olive, maroon and metallic gold on olive ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"No Reading / Library" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
17 1/2 x 16 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.465
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
leaves
flowers
fruit
dots
Aesthetic
Floral
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