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Fireboard paper framed with wallpaper border and backed with fabric. The pattern, which has lost most of its pigment, is a large oval medallion with diamond center made up of bands of scrolling lines, scrolling foliate vines, and other geometric shapes. Block-printed in green and white on gray ground. The border paper is mostly lost. It appears to have been a block-printed green and white floral pattern with black pin-dots and gray stripes running along the edges.
coverings and hangings for openings
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
cotton (textile)
medallions (ornament areas)
Fireboard
"Part of old fire board + / small early scraps / from Bass River / Prescott Wild" (handwritten)
Wild, Prescott
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
20 7/8 x 31 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1131
Bass River (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [river]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.291
Block Printed
Fireboard
Lt. Blue
Original
Handmade
Paper
Scrolls
Foliate Vine
Geometric
Diamond
Medallion
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