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Fragment of five uncut floral wallpaper borders. Pattern of pink water lilies, cattails, white flowers and green foliage on light green ground. Flowers and foliage grow from behind and spill over a red band with black circle and dot pattern running along the bottom edge of the border. Ochre stripe and stripe of black dots runs along upper edge of the border. Roller-printed in black, two reds, pink, brown, ochre, two greens and white on light green ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
15 1/2 x 13 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.922
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Lt. Green
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Flowers
Cattails
Water Lilies
Foliage
Cicles
Dots
Stripes
Floral
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