Three unused samples of reproduction wallpaper border or frieze by an unknown manufacturer. Wallpaper has highly abstracted flowering vines, each with one large lower blossom and a three-lobed leaf. Vines rise and interwine along top and have additional blossoms and leaves. Vines grow from a lower band with two horizontal stripes, Renaissance strapwork and a trefoil motif. There is a single horizontal band at top. Screen-printed. Three colorways are present: 2001.281.795.1 -- Brown, beige, peach and orange on a pale blue ground; 2001.281.795.2 -- Metallic gold, white and green on an olive green ground; and 2001.281.795.3 -- Brown, green, yellow and orange on a cinnamon ground. Pattern is reminiscent of papers manufactured by Bradbury & Bradbury.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
screen printing
metallic pigment
scrolling foliage
Wallpaper
"Job 858 / Renaissance / strikeoff / on El[illegible] 65" (Handwritten on back of 2001.281.795.3.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
14 3/4 x 9 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.795.1-.3
United States
Title Wallpaper Border or Frieze Accession Number 2001.281.962
Screen Print
Unused
Repro
Machine Made
Freize
Paper
flowers
vines
leaves
strapwork
trefoils
Art Nouveau
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