Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Naturalistic floral sprays with orange flowers, green leaves and grasses on olive ground. Dark olive stripe at upper and lower edges. Block-printed in peach, orange, two reds, tan, yellow, six greens, two olives on olive ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
3 1/2 x 22 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.906
Probably France
Block Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Sprays
Flowers
Leaves
Grasses
Stripe
Floral
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