Textile Design with a Pattern of Seamless Lozenges Formed by a Undulating Ribbons with Dots, Decorated with Octagons with Pearls on the Vertices

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with a Pattern of Seamless Lozenges Formed by a Undulating Ribbons with Dots, Decorated with Octagons with Pearls on the Vertices — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

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 seamless lozenges formed by undulating ribbons with alternating branch offsets and dots of light tan color. The lozenges are rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base and decorated with octagons that align to form alternating vertical rows. The octagons are colored in purple, green and orange, some of them framed with pearls of white color on the vertices.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library