Fireboard fragment with attached wallpaper. Allover peapod design in green and brown on tan ground. Border of floral and grass sprigs in black on olive ground. Evidence of earlier paper, small diaper pattern of green diamonds on tan ground, below peapod paper. Board has tongue and groove edge.
wallpapers
boards (flat objects)
wallpapers
softwood
carving (processes)
Fireboard
Fireboard
Original To Old Jotham Bush Tavern (Boylston Center, Mass.),
1968.38A
Unknown
26 1/8 x 14 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Walter Peinze
1968.38.5
1880-1890 (date for peapod paper)
Boylston Center (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Title Fireboard Accession Number 1968.38.4a
Title Fireboard Accession Number 1968.38.4b
Machine Printed
fireboard
Tan
Original
Machine Made
foliate
peapod
vine
aesthetic
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