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Two matching fragments of wallpaper from Bath, Maine. Pattern features motifs and naturalistic style of Japanese art popular with Aesthetic Movement designers. Cranes in flying and standing poses among a variety of flowering plants with a large tree branch or vine meandering back and forth across the design. Appears to have been block-printed in dark blue, pale pink or peach, two greens, gray and metallic copper on light blue ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Trott / Bath Me" (handwritten)
"Mrs. Trott / Bath Me" (handwritten)
Trott, Mrs.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
36 3/4 x 10 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.595AB
Bath (Sagadahoc county, Maine)
Title Honeybee Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.594
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.596A-E
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.597
Block Printed
wall fragment
Lt. Blue
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Cranes
Flowers
Japanese
Bonsia Tree
Aesthetic
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