Object Details
- Manufacturer
- M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two alternating oval medallions wreathed with floral and leaf sprays. Pastoral scenes are enclosed. One depicts a woman sewing grain from a bay. The other shows a man baiting his fishing hook by a lake. Between each medallion is a small geometric rosette. Background filled with tiny crosses arranged in rows. Reproduced from an early wallpaper found in a trunk in Northampton, Massachusetts. One of the purest examples of early American designs. Printed on reverse: "Birge waterfast, Glaze-tek, sidewall 3107 B, Border to match 107 B". Printed in green, gold and tan, on buff field.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Birge Company, Inc.
- ca. 1925
- Accession Number
- 1945-12-20
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Object Name
- Sidewall
- Type
- Sidewall
- Medium
- Machine-printed
- Dimensions
- 61.5 x 45 cm (24 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Wallcoverings Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1945-12-20
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4529b4fc1-0c9a-4794-bd15-e07f9cbdf6c6
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