Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls and Inverted Teardrops Framed with Pearls with Offsetting Wheat Ears Separated by a Vertical Zig-Zagging Ribbon over a Chevron Background

1840
Not on view
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 undulating garlands of pearls of red color and inverted teardrops framed with pearls with offsetting wheat ears separated by a vertical zig-zagging ribbon of dark reddish-brown color with light tan outlines over a chevron background of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The teardrops are colored with orange, purple and green color and have red outlines; the pearls around them are colored with white. The wheat ears are of white color.

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Object Information
  • Title: Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls and Inverted Teardrops Framed with Pearls with Offsetting Wheat Ears Separated by a Vertical Zig-Zagging Ribbon over a Chevron Background
  • Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
  • Date: 1840
  • Medium: Gouache
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 4 1/8 in. (8.5 × 10.4 cm)
  • Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
  • Object Number: 1978.671.5(8.5)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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