Fragment of morning glory and scroll wallpaper border. Gray and gold block-printed flowers drape over imitation molding featuring a fluid acanthus leaf figure with long scrolls in red flocking. Block-printed in metallic gold, two grays and red flocking on polished white ground. The flocking is overprinted in pink and black. Fragment (A) is two uncut rows of the border. Fragment (B) is a single cut row.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
11 1/4 x 20 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.645AB
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Architectural Molding
Flowers
Morning Glory
Floral
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