Fragment of wallpaper border with stylized imitation of architectural molding. Small metallic gold arches with stylized torch or flower figures frame stylized floral figures and arabesque lines in light blue on blue background. Lower band with chain link pattern in metallic gold on black background. Roller-printed in cream, metallic gold, two blues and black on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
arabesques
Wallpaper
"North Andover" (In Dorothy Waterhouse's handwriting)
"571 c" (Somekind of old accession number? Old SPNEA wallpaper number?)
"36:44" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
2 1/4 x 8 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.694
Machine Printed
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Arches
Architectural Molding
stylized flower
chain
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