Textile Design with Vertical Stripes Decorated with Quatrefoils of Pearls and with Offsetting Honeycomb Patterns
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 vertical stripes of dark reddish-brown color decorated with quatrefoils of pearls of white color and with offsetting honeycomb patterns over a tan base.