Cream wallpaper with charcoal chinoiserie branches, musicians, figures and floral sprays

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Zoffany

Emperors Musician Charcoal

Arcadian Thames Wallpapers WallpaperZOW0128-02

Emperors Musician Charcoal combines a softly warm cream ground with finely drawn charcoal chinoiserie branches, floral sprays and lively riverside figures. The expansive scene has an archival, illustrated quality, with darker details giving the colourway depth without overwhelming the pale background.

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About this fabric

The design is visibly composed of winding flowering branches, birds, delicate foliage and small narrative scenes, including figures gathered beside a river and a suspended boat or canopy. Charcoal, blue-grey and muted brown-black linework sits against the creamy ground, creating a restrained, softly weathered contrast. This wallpaper has a 136 cm useable width and a substantial listed weight of 449 gsm. Its 164.5 cm vertical pattern repeat allows the full scenic composition to unfold across the wall, while the standard length is 1.64 m.

How to use it

Use this cream-and-charcoal colourway in a dining room, study or bedroom where its detailed scenic branches can read as a collected mural. Balance the pale ground with charcoal-painted furniture, aged timber and quiet blue-grey accents.

Use its warm cream ground and charcoal chinoiserie scenes to create a collected, story-rich feature wall.

Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

Country Linen

Sanderson · #d4cdbd

To stand against it

Fire Pink

Sanderson · #b97174

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