Textile Design with Vertical and Horizontal Rows of Stylized Bullet-Shaped Flowers with Pearls as Pistils, Placed Alternately Horizontally and Verticallly, and Quatrefoils Forming In-Between the Flowers
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 vertical and horizontal rows of stylized bullet-shape flowers with six pearls as pistils, placed alternately horizontally and verticallly, and quatrefoils forming in-between the stylized flowers. The stylized flowers are of light tan color with red outlines and the pearls are of white color over a stippled ground of dark brown color. The quatrefoils are of light tan color with dark brown stipples over a dark brown ground.
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