Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Rosettes with Triangular Petals over a Labyrinth-Like Pattern
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 alternating rows of rosettes with five triangular petals colored with white over a labyrinth-like pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base.