Fragment of floral wallpaper border. This unused border fragment appears to have been die cut by the manufacturer along the bottom edge of the pattern. The border has an upper band of gray lozenges on green. Below it are gold panels on white. A dense and colorful array of flowers and foliage conceal the lower edges of the panels. The border is trimmed along the lower edge of the flowers. The upper edge of the border is untrimmed, the die-cut outline of the absent border above is present. The border is roller-printed in black, metallic gold, two grays, light orange, green, two blues, two reds, ochre, white and metallic gold on thin white ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
die cutting
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
6 1/2 x 18 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.950
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Lozenge
Stripe
Panel
Flowers
Foliage
Floral
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