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Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment is printed with four complete corners. The corners are printed in an architectural molding pattern with scrolling acanthus leaf figures, rosettes, ribbon and beads and single row beads. Block-printed in white, two grays and four blues on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
moldings and molding components: architectural
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
19 1/4 x 22 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.991
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.992
Block Printed
Unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Architectural Molding
Acanthus Leaves
Bead
Ribbon
Rosettes
Scrolls
NeoClassical
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