Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Amoeba Figures and Vertical Garlands Decorated with Rosettes and Pearls Over a Honeycomb Pattern Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century Alsatian

1840

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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 textile design is made of an abstract honeycomb pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base, over which alternating vertical strips of aboeba-shaped figures and verical garlands with rosettes and pearls stand out. The amoeba figures are outlined with dots of light tan color and rendered with a smaller honeycomb pattern of dotted lines of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base. The vertical garlands consist of alternating rosettes of yellow color with red outlines and four pearls of white color as pistils and smaller rosettes of purple color with red ourlines, joined together by a vertical strip of alternating pearls of white color, over a light tan ground with dark reddish-brown stipples.

Artwork Details

Overview

Title: Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Amoeba Figures and Vertical Garlands Decorated with Rosettes and Pearls Over a Honeycomb Pattern Background
Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 9/16 × 3 15/16 in. (9 × 10 cm)
Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Object Number: 1978.671.5(20.12)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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