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Fragment of embossed, flocked, gilt-figured wallpaper decorated with a rod wrapped with beads, ribbon and leafy branches with fruit . Upper and lower edges of border also embossed and gilded. Blue ground used in figures as detail lines and shadowing. Areas void of decorative figures are covered with green flocking.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
flocking
gilding
embossed wall coverings
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
2 5/8 x 8 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.663AB
Flocked
unused
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Border
Embossed
Paper
Dots
Beads
Ribbon
Foliate
NeoClassical
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