Textile Design with Vertical Garlands of Stylized Flowers and Leaves and Pearls with Offsetting Branches Separated by Vertical Rows of Alternating Shuttle-Shaped Motifs with a Small Rosette Flanked by Two Leaves with Offsetting Branches

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Vertical Garlands of Stylized Flowers and Leaves and Pearls with Offsetting Branches Separated by Vertical Rows of Alternating Shuttle-Shaped Motifs with a Small Rosette Flanked by Two Leaves with Offsetting Branches — 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 vertical garlands of stylized flowers and leaves of red color joined by stems decorated with pearls of white color over a light tan background with offsetting branches of tan color, separated by vertical rows of alternating shuttle-shaped motifs of black color with a small rosette flanked by two leaves of white color with offsetting branches of light tan and tan color, over a dark reddish-brown base.

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