Small wooden trunk from Massachusetts covered in wallpapers. The body of the trunk is covered with a festoon border pattern. Floral festoons and smaller festoons of cord and tassels hang from arches decorated with dots, medallions and fringe on a background of white pindots. Block printed in green, white and pink with mica on a light blue ground. A different, more narrow border paper covers the outer rim of the trunk lid. This paper has a floral vine pattern in which large blooms with foliage are joined by a woody vine. Behind the flowers are vertical lines and above them a band of bead and reel figures in imitation of architectural molding. The top of the trunk is covered with a plain light blue paper decorated with decoupage flowers and framed with a narrow wallpaper bead border. The inside of trunk is lined with marblized paper.
wallpapers
accessories
paper (fiber product)
Trunk
Cherished Possessions: "This trunk is covered with a "Festune Border" wallpaper, Boston, 1790-1815, which was carried by Appleton Prentiss. A roll of uncut festoon borders is depicted on the far right of the billhead."
Festoon Border
352
1951.M18
1920.45
Appleton Prentiss (Manufacturer)
Massachusetts, United States
8 5/8 x 13 1/8 x 8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Estate of Mrs. James H. Beal
1920.42
"Wallpaper in New England," pg. 69, fig. 11.7
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1972.113c
Block Printed
Bandbox
Original
Handmade
Handmade
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