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Four fragments of block-printed wallpaper border. Border imitates architectural molding featuring four-petaled rosettes and oval medallions in yellow against green. Block-printed in ochre, brown, yellow, black and two green on ungrounded paper. Fragment (A) is a pair of uncut borders. Fragments (B-C) have been cut but not trimmed.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
3 1/2 x 22 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.676A-D
Block Printed
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Rosettes
Oval Medallions
Architectural Molding
Neoclassical
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