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Fragment of unused rose medallion border from Wilmont Flat, New Hampshire. Wide border with alternating large and small oval medallions framing rose sprays. The medallions are adorned with elaborate scrolls and strapwork above and hanging strings of beads below. Roller-printed in dark red, pink, mauve, gold liquid mica, green and white on a pink irisé ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
mica (white pigment)
medallions (ornament areas)
Wallpaper
"Late Victorian / Wilmont Flat, N. H." (Handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
9 x 25 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.567
Machine Printed
Irise
unused
Pink
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Roses
Beads
Medallions
Scrolls
Strapwork
Floral Medallion
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