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  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1890

    Fine network formed by delicate geometrical scrolls embellished with small floral ropes and flower clusters. Printed in gold, silver, pink, green, white on pale blue ground.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), ca. 1888

    Twisting acanthus octagonal framework centered with leafy forms interlock in all-over pattern.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1900–1915

    Diagonal rows of scroll-enframed figures of various shapes. A near geometrical feeling results. Figures are not large. The most elaborate motif has leafy forms in pink and silver.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1887–95

    A series of approximately circular figures, the largest of which has scrolled frame with red center motifs. Printed in gold, white and red on dull yellow embossed ground.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1885–89

    Bold leafy scrolls with small pink roses alternate in checkered fashion with delicate ropes of small flowers forming eight-pointed star centered with small flower and bud. Printed on pink ground.

  • Panel (Algeria), 18th–19th century

    Small hanging or shawl of fine, loosely woven linen, embroidered in silk in blue, violet, red, olive green, pink and white. Design symmetrically arranged, of stylized plants with spiky, angular…

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1885–90

    Ceiling paper, motifs of four foliate scrolls set within a laurel circle. Printed in green and pink on ochre ground.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1900

    Quatrefoil motifs in green and gold, with connecting thin scrolls on woodgrain imitation on uncoated paper. Drop match, drop repeat.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1880–87

    Floral sprigs and foliette sprigs, randomly joined in non-directional manner. Printed in yellow-green with gold floral highlights and gold dots, on light yellow-green ground. Printed in selvedge: “A.W.P.M.A.”

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1875–1910

    Diamond-diaper or trellis design. Stylized four-petal floral motif in each grid, with quatrefoil in each trellis intersection. Printed in white mica on white ground.

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