Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Stylized Three-Leaved Clovers Decorated with Rosettes over an Abstract Honeycomb Pattern

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Stylized Three-Leaved Clovers Decorated with Rosettes over an Abstract Honeycomb Pattern — 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 alternating rows of stylized three-leaved clovers of dark reddish-brown color decorated with rosettes of five petals colored with white over an abstract honeycomb pattern of stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base.

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