Wallpaper fragment on horsehair plaster. Blue stripe of stylized vine framed with zig-zag and stylized flowers, alternating with stripe of allover cross or four-pointed star. Machine printed in blue on yellow ochre ground.
wallpapers
sheathing
fibrous plaster
wallpapers
fibrous plaster
horsehair
Covering, Wall
Wallpaper
Wallpaper
Unknown
9 (W) (inches)
Gift of James Garvin and Joseph Hammond
1972.116
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1972.115a
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1972.115b
Block Printed
Yellow
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
stripe
Paper
stripe
cross
star
vine
zig zag
tulip
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