Textile Design with Alternating Palmettes Decorated with Pearls Flanked by Bundles of Leaves

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 consists of alternating palmettes rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a tan base flanked by a bundle of eight branches with leaves of light tan color, all over a dark reddish-brown base. The palmette is decorated with an inverted tear-shaped pearl flanked by three strips of pearls; all the pearls are colored with white. Only one full motif can be seen in the sheet, with only fragments of the repeats seen in the continuation of the pattern around this central palmette.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library