Partial roll of wallpaper with pattern inspired by hand-painted Chinese panels popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the United States. The wallpaper depicts a single meandering branch with a variety of different blooming flowers. Birds and parrots perch on the branch, butterflies fly among the flowers. Block-printed in two greens, red, two oranges, white, two grays, two blues, black, two yellows and brown on a mottled gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Chinoiserie
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
27 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1132
Block Printed
Unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Machine Made
Chinoiserie
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