Border paper
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wallpaper
Measurements
262 mm (Width); 335 mm (L)
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 936568
Summary
Horizontal buff wallpaper border with a multi-coloured pattern of goldfinches/love birds (?) on a budding prunus branch, a colour print from engraved rollers, 1900-1905. On reverse in pencil is the handwritten note 'Bedroom no. 24', (i.e. Lady Stamford's maid's room, possibly refering to the Red Room).
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Marks and inscriptions
Bedroom no. 24 (handwritten in pencil on reverse)