Textile Design with Alternating Shuttle-Shaped Motifs Framed by Pearls and with Offsetting Palmettes Framed by a Checked Pattern of Intersecting Zig-Zagging Diagonal Lines
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 alternating shuttle-shaped motifs framed by pearls and with offsetting palmettes rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color framed by a checked pattern of intersecting zig-zagging diagonal lines of light tan color over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The shuttle-shaped motifs are colored with red; the pearls are colored with white.
Artwork Details
- Title: Textile Design with Alternating Shuttle-Shaped Motifs Framed by Pearls and with Offsetting Palmettes Framed by a Checked Pattern of Intersecting Zig-Zagging Diagonal Lines
- Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
- Date: 1840
- Medium: Gouache
- Dimensions: Sheet: 2 15/16 × 3 1/4 in. (7.5 × 8.2 cm)
- Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 1978.671.5(9.1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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