Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Ellipses Containing a Stylized S-Shape Framed by Horizontal Undulating Garlands of Branches with Pearls and Rosettes

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 rows of ellipses ontaining stylized S-shapes separated by horizontal undulating garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetting thorns rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color decorated with pearls and rosettes with five petals over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish brown color. The S-shapes are colored alternatingly with orange and purple; the ellipses are colored with red. The pearls and rosettes are colored with white.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library