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Fragment of wallpaper border. Wide border with fretwork bands in two shades of brown running along upper and lower edges. Center band has pattern of stylized floral medallions encircled by stylized lotus flowers in red and black with gold glitter on tan background. Roller-printed in two browns, tan, black, two reds and gold glitter on light blue ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
glitter
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
"B+G" (Not in Dorothy Waterhouse's handwriting)
"Old Border - Victorian / Corcker?" (Written by Dorothy Waterhouse)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
9 x 13 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.939
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Lt. Blue
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Medallion
Floral
Lotus
Scroll
Fret
Neoclassical
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