Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Red flowers and green foliage on black background. Flowers and foliage grow from behind and spill over a band of gold and maroon half circles and stripes on olive ground running along lower edge of border. Narrower border of gold and maroon half-circles and stripes on olive ground runs along upper edge of border. Roller-printed in maroon, metallic gold, black, red, orange and green on olive ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
6 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.927
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Flowers
Foliage
Half-circles
Stripes
Floral
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