Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Circular Flower Buds on Stems with Two Leaves and Decorated by Pearls Framed with Garlands of Branches
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 of alternating rows of circular flower buds on a stem with two leaves of black color, all decorated with pearls, framed by garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetting branches rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, over a light tan base with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The flower buds are of yellow and purple color and have outlines of red color and the pearls are of white color.
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