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Cut sample of the reproduction wallpaper "Wellfleet" affixed to paperboard. Pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection produced by the Warner Company, Chicago. Repeating geometric pattern of fleur de lis figures framed by tear-shaped cartouches over background of small fleur de lis figures. Roller-printed in white, gold and two greens on blue ground. The pattern is based on a wallpaper from a house in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
geometric patterns
fleur-de-lis (motifs)
Wallpaper
"There is matching fabric for this wallpaper / From the Waterhouse / "Wellfleet" / Recreated by Binnie B. Wilson for The / 21428" (Text cut from wallpaper selvedge and pasted to verso of paperboard.)
Wellfleet
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With Hinkley House (South Wellfleet, MA),
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
13 1/2 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.821
South Wellfleet (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.511A-C
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.706
Machine Printed
Unused
Green
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Fleur de lis
cartouche
medallion
Geometric
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