Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garland of Stylized Leaves and Undulating Circles Surrounded by Pearls
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 composed of a dark reddish-brown base and alternating vertical garlands of stylized leaves of light tan color with stems of dark reddish-brown color, and undulating circles joined by a branch and surrounded by pearls over a spine of overlapping scales in light tan color shaded with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The circles are of pink, orange, and purple color, with dark red border and a black shade; the pearls are colored in white, with black border and shade; the joining branch is colored in black and decorated with small white pearls.
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