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Set of nineteen non-repeating scenic wallpaper panels. Nine panels of rice cultivation and ten panels of porcelain production; Porcelain panels depict workers cleaning and purifying raw clay, decorating unfired ware, firing it in kilns, packing the finished pieces for shipment, and carrying the packed crates of porcelain down the mountainside. Hand painted in naturalistic colors.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Wallpaper
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
47 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.4655
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