Textile Design with Trefoil Knots Framed by an Interlacing Honeycomb Pattern with Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Rectangular sheet of paper with a textile design from a group, dated 1840, made in Mulhouse, Alsace, which was an important nineteenth-century center for textile production in the Haut-Rhin region of France. The design is made up of alternating rows of trefoil knots framed by an interlacing honeycomb pattern of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base decorated with pearls framed by circles, and with offsetting thorns rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, over a background of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The knots are colored alternatingly with purple, orange, and green, and are outlined with red. The pearls are of white color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library