Textile Design with a Tiled Background of Alternating Rectangular Shapes Framed by Ribbons Decorated with Trefoils of 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 tiled background of alternating rectangular shapes framed by ribbons of light tan color and red outlines decorated with trefoils of pearls. The tiles are rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base. The pearls are colored with white.

Textile Design with a Tiled Background of Alternating Rectangular Shapes Framed by Ribbons Decorated with Trefoils of Pearls, Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century, Gouache

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