Textile Design with Horizontal Undulating Strips of Pearls with Alternating Offsetting Bundles of Pearls and Heart Shapes over a Background of Alternating Overlapping Scales
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 horizontal undulating strips of pearls with alternating offsetting bundles of pearls and heart shapes over a background of alternating overlapping scales of light tan color and stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The heart shapes are colored alternatingly with orange, purple, and green, and are outlined with red. The pearls are colored with white.