Textile Design with Horizontal Rows of Undulating Garlands and Zig-Zagging Stiff Branches Flanked by Rosettes of Pearls Over a Stippled Background

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 of a horizontal rows of undulating garlands rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples with zig-zagging stiff branches of light tan color with red outlines, flanked with alternating rosettes of eight small pearls of white color, over a background of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples.

Textile Design with Horizontal Rows of Undulating Garlands and Zig-Zagging Stiff Branches Flanked by Rosettes of Pearls Over a Stippled Background, Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century, Gouache

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