Fragment of uncut floral wallpaper border. Fragment includes one border and partial second border. Single border has upper and lower bands with stylized turning leaf and dot pattern roller-printed in light tan and brown. Wide central band has a pattern of stylized flowers in browns and olives with small accent flowers in bright fuschia. A single flower figure repeats, alternating orientation face up and down. The flowers are highlighted with yellow dots and shaded with brown. Roller-printed in yellow, light tan, two olives, five browns, and fuschia on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"1416" (Pattern number.)
1416
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
9 1/4 x 29 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.919
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
stylized flowers
foliage
Leaves
Floral
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