Textile Design with a Seamless Pattern of Alternating Triangles Decorated 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 consists of a seamless pattern of alternating triangles of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The rows of upright triangles show the light tan base in the borders of the triangles and contain pearls of white color in the center.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library