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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Wheat Damask" pattern (#154304) by Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Wallpaper has a large-scale pattern of rosettes topped with rococo scrolling foliage and stylized wheat motifs in the style of a damask textile. Roller-printed to resemble an 18th-century stencil in yellow on a beige ground. Pattern is based on an early stenciled wallpaper found in a Dorchester, Massachusetts house. Pattern was also reproduced by Katzenbach and Warren in the 1960s.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Rococo Revival
Wallpaper
"Wheat Damask / #154304 $7.50 per roll" (Handwritten on verso.)
Wheat Damask
154304
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. (Manufacturer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
23 15/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.884
Dorchester Heights (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.868
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.703
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.704
Title Textile Remnant "Wheat Damask" Accession Number 2001.281.1244
Machine Printed
Unused
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
damask
wheat
foliage
rosettes
Damask
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