Textile Design with Basketweave Pattern Background, Small Rosettes Flanked by Two Leaves and 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 made up of a basket weave pattern background of dark reddish-brown color with shades of stipples of light tan color. Small rosettes of light tan color with red outlines and a small black dot in the center, flanked by stylized leaves of the same color on the sides, lie over the ribbons that conform the basket weave. In the spaces between the ribbon are adorned with groups of four pearls of white color with black outlines aligned in the shape of lozenges.
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