Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls and Ovals Framed with Pearls over Undulating Stylized Palm Leaves Separated by Undulating Garlands of Dots
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 undulating garlands of pearls and ovals framed with pearls over undulating stylized palm leaves of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples separated by undulating garlands of dots of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown ground. The pearls are colored with white; the ovals are colored with purple, orange and green.
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