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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.

  • Sample (France), 1909–12

    Piece of sheer silk embroidered with stylized lily-like forms with thin crossing stems, in off-white and pale yellow silks on white silk chiffon and net.

  • Sample, Large Stem Taff, late 19th–early 20th century

    Medium-scale floral in the Chinoiserie style, with foliage including bamboo and tree peony, in blues, greens, yellow and tan with balck outline on a cream ground. Narrow plain selvedge with…

  • Sample, Loddon, late 19th–early 20th century

    Large-scale symmetrical design of intertwined stems forming arabesques and ogees, with large flower heads, in blue, green, and yellow with black outline on white ground. Double warps.

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