Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Curved Hourglass Shapes Flanked by Two Pearls Framed with Garlands of Stylized Leaves with Offsetting Thorns
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 consists of alternating rows of curved hourglass shapes flanked by two pearls framed with garlands of stylized leaves of light tan color with offsetting thorns of dark reddish brown color, over a background with stipples of dark reddish-brown color on a light tan base. The curved hourglass shapes are of yellow and purple color with red outlines, and the pearls are of white color.
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