Textile Design with Alternating Hexagons and Starlike Shapes with Pearls in the Center Framed by a Network of Garlands of Branches

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 hexagons and star-like shapes with seven pearls in the center, framed by a network of garlands of branches of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown ground. The hexagons are aligned in vertical rows, and colored alternately in orange and purple, with red outlines and a black shadow. The starlike shapes are rendered in light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The pearls are of white color with black outlines.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library