Wallpaper
Roy Coles
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Machine-made paper substrate. Distemper ground in cobalt ? blue. Block printed in five colours. Gold coloured oigmented ink. Black outlines likely to have been printed using a block inlaid with metal. Cobalt Blue ? Cadmium orange ?
Measurements
550 mm (W); 232 mm (Length); 460 mm (W); 500 mm (Length); 575 mm (W); 567 mm (W); 560 mm (W); 290 mm (Length); 290 mm (W); 1080 mm (Length); 450 mm (W); 750 mm (Length)
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Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210782.3
Summary
Wallpaper Box 16. Gold crown, cream lilies and brick-red flowers with trellis of gold dots on ultramarine background. c.1860-70. 26 fragments. i,o,p - 3 rolls (V&A description). c. 1860s: Block printed on a blue ground. Gold crown, cream lilies & orange flowers with trellis of gold dots. Floral diaper design in sub Gothic revival style. (Allyson McDermott's description - see "Investigation into the use of wallpapers at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. April 2013").
Provenance
Campaign of Decoration: 7th Baronet c 1860/70. Original Location: East Wing Drawing Room or Hall Staircase? Wallface, skirting to cornice. Although in the Gothic style this is not the robust ecclesiastical Gothic of Pugin, rather a prettier and more decorative version more suitable to a family home. It is similar in style and colour to papers produced and registered by Woollams c 1864.
Makers and roles
Roy Coles, designer William Woollams, maker