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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Mary Wade" pattern (#23064) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper is printed with a geometric tile pattern featuring a stylized floral and foliate medallion in a sixteen-sided tile. The tiles are divided by lozenge figures with sprig figures. The paper is roller-printed in two blues and peach on a cream ground. Pattern is based on a roller-printed wallpaper dating from 1870-1880 found in a closet in the Mary Wade House in Ipswich, MA.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Mary Wade
23064
Wade, Mary
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With Wade House (Ipswich, MA),
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
20 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.851
Ipswich (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.710
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.971.1AB
Title Textile Remnant "Mary Wade" Accession Number 2001.281.1228.1-.3
Machine Printed
Unused
Cream
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
medallions
stylized floral
stylized foliate
sprigs
lozenges
Tile
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