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Floral wallpaper fragments from the Wing House in Sandwich, Massachusetts. All-over floral pattern in the Aesthetic style. Stylized flowers and leafy branches. Liquid mica pin dots highlight the pattern figures. Roller-printed in cream on light cream ground. "Keystone" printed in selvedge. Fragments affixed to paperboard.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
mica (white pigment)
floral patterns
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"# 43 / Wing House - / Sandwich" (Written directly on the back of paperboard and again on jelly jar label affixed to back of paperboard)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To John Wing House (Sandwich, MA),
Unknown
North America
16 x 11 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.493
Sandwich (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Probably North America (North and Central America) [general region]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.490
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.491AB
Title Wallpaper attached to wallboard Accession Number 2001.281.1200AB
Machine Printed
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
Leaves
Stems
pin dots
Floral
Aesthetic
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