Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls and Inverted Teardrops Framed with Pearls with Offsetting Wheat Ears Separated by a Vertical Zig-Zagging Ribbon over a Chevron 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 is made up of vertical undulating garlands of pearls of red color and inverted teardrops framed with pearls with offsetting wheat ears separated by a vertical zig-zagging ribbon of dark reddish-brown color with light tan outlines over a chevron background of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The teardrops are colored with orange, purple and green color and have red outlines; the pearls around them are colored with white. The wheat ears are of white color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library