Textile Design with Vertical Garlands of Stylized Flowers and Leaves and Pearls with Offsetting Branches Separated by Vertical Rows of Alternating Shuttle-Shaped Motifs with a Small Rosette Flanked by Two Leaves with Offsetting 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 up of vertical garlands of stylized flowers and leaves of red color joined by stems decorated with pearls of white color over a light tan background with offsetting branches of tan color, separated by vertical rows of alternating shuttle-shaped motifs of black color with a small rosette flanked by two leaves of white color with offsetting branches of light tan and tan color, over a dark reddish-brown base.

Textile Design with Vertical Garlands of Stylized Flowers and Leaves and Pearls with Offsetting Branches Separated by Vertical Rows of Alternating Shuttle-Shaped Motifs with a Small Rosette Flanked by Two Leaves with Offsetting Branches, Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century, Gouache

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