Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garlands of Stylized Leaves and Branches Decorated with Quatrefoils with an Ornamental Frame and Rosettes with Pearls

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 up of alternating vertical garlands of stylized leaves of black color with light tan outlines and offsetting branches of tan color decorated with pearls and smaller vertical garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetts colored with tan. One of the larger garlands is decorated with quatrefoils of cream color outlined with black containing a small rosette of black color flanked by two stylized leaves inside an ornamental frame of red color with outlines of cream color. One of the smaller garlands is decorated with small stylized flowers of five petals of red color with five pearls as pistils. The pearls are all of white color. The repetitions of the garlands are left incomplete.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library