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Wallpaper fragment. Medallion and square paper. Alternating squares; one with quatrefoil and leaf urn with swans in center, the other square has a foliate and flower sunburst composed of geometric elements in center. Printed in red on yellow ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
"Paper manufactured in squares/ Kimball Endicott House, Danvers, Massachusetts about 1700/ paper removed during repairs of 1924./ Gift of William C. Endicott, 3 Oct. 1924/ This paper was under no. [1924].654B" (Handwritten on verso)
Kimball-Endicott House,
483
Unknown
United States
19 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of William C. Endicott
1924.655
"Wallpaper in New England"; p133, fig 30.1. Katzenbach; "The Practical Book on American Wallpaper"; p. 91, Repro. "Stencil Square"
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1924.654B
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.107
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Yellow
Original
Handmade
Wove
Joined sheets
Paper
Medallion
square
stencil
urn
swans
Geometric
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