Textile Design with Vertical Strips of Pearls Framed by Ornamental Scrolling Motifs over a Striped Background with Dots

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Vertical Strips of Pearls Framed by Ornamental Scrolling Motifs over a Striped Background with Dots — 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 strips of pearls framed by ornamental scrolling motifs over a striped background of dark reddish-brown color and light tan color with dots of light tan color. The pearls are colored with white; the ornamental motifs are colored with red.

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