Textile Design with Vertical Scrolls of Pearls with Circles Separated by Vertical Undulating Garlands of Stylized Leaves
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 scrolls of pearls with circles, separated by vertical undulating garlands of dark reddish-brown color with stylized leaves of light tan color over a light tan ground. The circles are colored with orange, purple and pink, and the pearls are colored with white. In the upper part of the drawing, the separating garlands have offsetting scrolls of leaves rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color and the background is also decorated with scattered stipples of dark reddish-brown color.
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