Textile Design with Vertical and Horizontal Rows of Stylized Bullet-Shaped Flowers with Pearls as Pistils, Placed Alternately Horizontally and Verticallly, and Quatrefoils Forming In-Between the Flowers

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 vertical and horizontal rows of stylized bullet-shape flowers with six pearls as pistils, placed alternately horizontally and verticallly, and quatrefoils forming in-between the stylized flowers. The stylized flowers are of light tan color with red outlines and the pearls are of white color over a stippled ground of dark brown color. The quatrefoils are of light tan color with dark brown stipples over a dark brown ground.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library