Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Circular Flower Buds on Stems with Two Leaves and Decorated by Pearls Framed with 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 of alternating rows of circular flower buds on a stem with two leaves of black color, all decorated with pearls, framed by garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetting branches rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, over a light tan base with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The flower buds are of yellow and purple color and have outlines of red color and 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