Textile Design with Rosettes with Pearls as Pistils Grouped Together to Form Stylized Flowers over an Abstract Honeycomb Pattern in the Background

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 groups of four rosettes of light tan color with outlines of red color and pearls of white color as pistils over a background of an abstract honeycomb pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base. The rosettes have the form of stylized petals, so that the groups of four rosettes look like larger stylized flowers.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library