This design by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo was possibly for a wallpaper, although unlikely to ever have been put into production. The motif is similar to Herbert Horne's decoration on a cabinet designed by Mackmurdo and exhibited on the Century Guild stand at the Manchester Royal Jubilee exhibition of 1887.
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