Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garland of Stylized Leaves and Undulating Circles Surrounded by 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 composed of a dark reddish-brown base and alternating vertical garlands of stylized leaves of light tan color with stems of dark reddish-brown color, and undulating circles joined by a branch and surrounded by pearls over a spine of overlapping scales in light tan color shaded with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The circles are of pink, orange, and purple color, with dark red border and a black shade; the pearls are colored in white, with black border and shade; the joining branch is colored in black and decorated with small white pearls.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library