Unused fragment of ceiling corner paper from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Corner figure features a central gold circle with floral bouquet flanked by scrolling leaves and flowers. From the center of the bouquet rises a fan-like figure that terminates with three branches with three leaves each. Below the bouquet, at the corner of the figure, is a lion head. The edges of the figure are framed with a ribbon of gold circles. Roller-printed in two browns, olive, metallic gold, maroon, two blues, pink, purple, cream on yellow ground. The paper is embossed with a woven texture.
wallpapers
ceiling papers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Stroudsburg, PA" (handwritten)
1036
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
42 3/4 x 31 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.617
Probably United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Yellow
Original
Machine Made
Ceiling
Embossed
Paper
Floral
Gargoyle
Lion
Fan
Aesthetic
Ceiling Paper
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