Fragment of wallpaper border decorated in the Aethetic Movement style. Wide border with metallic gold and black tile pattern along upper and lower edges. Center band depicts bamboo shoots, branches of cherry blossoms and a gold moon with bats flying in front of it on olive background. Roller-printed in metallic gold, black, two reds, pale peach, dark olive, light olive and blue on olive ground. The paper is embossed with woven texture.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
9 3/8 x 13 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.938
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Machine Made
Embossed
Aesthetic
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