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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Rose and Lace" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a large-scale repeating grid formed by four elongated ovals arranged around a circle with a star motif. Each section of the grid contains a rosette. Roller-printed in pink, brown, and two greens on a green ground. Pattern is an adaptation of a nineteenth century wallpaper found in the Captain Richard Trask house in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
medallions (ornament areas)
rosette (motif)
Wallpaper
"Reproduced from a Dorothy S. Waterhouse Document / Fadeproof / Washable / "Rose and Lace" / 131 GW 813" (Printed on left selvedge.)
"From the Greenbrook Collection of Related Fabrics & Wallpapers / KAtzenbach and Warren, Inc. / Made in U. S. A." (Printed on right selvedge.)
Rose and Lace
131 GW 813
Trask, Richard
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With Captain Trask House,
Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
22 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.865
Manchester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.703
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.704
Title Wallpaper attached to wallboard Accession Number 2001.281.1196AB
Title Textile Remnant "Rose & Lace" Accession Number 2001.281.1229
Machine Printed
Unused
Green
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
medallions
rosettes
stars
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