Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls with Alternatig Larger Pearls Separated by Undulating Garlands of Dots with Offsetting Stylized Palm 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 undulating garlands of small pearls with alternating larger pearls separated by vertical undulating garlands of dots of light tan color with offsetting stylized palm leaves of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan background with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The small pearls are colored with white; the larger pearls are colored alternatingly with pink, orange, purple and geen, and have red outlines.