Textile Design with Alternating Quatrefoils Bordered with Pearls and Framed by Interlacing Ribbons
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century Alsatian
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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 quatrefoils of dark red color framed by pearls with offsetting thorns rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color on a light tan ground. The quatrefoils are framed by interlacing ribbons of light tan color with dark reddish-brown border and shade. The pearls bordering the quatrefoils are colored with white.
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