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Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper frieze in the "Watkins Glen Frieze" pattern manufactured by Bradbury & Bradbury as part of their "In the Dresser Tradition" roomset. Wallpaper has a highly abstracted repeating lotus flower motif bordered on the top and bottom by a row of circles between two horizontal stripes. Screen-printed in metallic gold, metallic bronze, green, black and mauve. Pattern is derived from an English or American roller-printed paper from 1875-1890 based on a Christopher Dresser design.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
screen printing
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers / Watkins" (Printed on the bottom selvedge)
"Watkins Glen Frieze / Color Code: WGF - 401 / Price Code: S" and "Handprinted by / Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers / Box 155 / Benecia, California 94510 / (707) 746-1900" (Stamped on back.)
Watkins Glen Frieze
WGF
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Bradbury & Bradbury (Manufacturer)
United States
29 1/2 x 11 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.789
United States
Screen Print
Unused
Repro
Machine Made
Freize
Paper
lotuses
circles
stripes
Aesthetic
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