Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garlands of Abstract Shapes Adorned with 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 alternating vertical garlands of abstract shape with shades made of dark reddish-brown stipples and adorned with groups of five pearls horizontally arranged over a light tan pattern with dark reddish-brown stipples. The pearls are of white color with black outlines.
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