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Floral trail and stripe wallpaper from the Captain John Kendrick House, Wareham, Massachusetts. First layer of paper from the north room on the second floor, removed during mid-1970s restoration. A black floral vine with gray-green blooms undulates across regularly placed floral stripes. The floral stripes alternate from black stems with white flowers to white stems with black flowers. The gray-green of the flowers appears to be stenciled on the pink ground with the rest of the pattern block-printed over both in white and black . Laid paper, partial sheets. English excise tax stamp on verso (Fragment H).
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"[English Excise Stamp] / PAPER / J" (See object file for photographs, correspondence, etc.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Captain John Kendrick House, 2nd Floor Room
Unknown
England
20 1/4 x 9 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.518.1A-I
Wareham (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.518.2A-F
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.519A-L
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.518.2A-F
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.776.1-.2
Block Printed
Stenciled
wall fragment
Pink
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
Floral vines
flowers
stripes
Floral Trail
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