Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Pearls and Stylized Leaves 1840 Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century 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 strips of pearls joined by groups of three smaller pearls of light tan color framed by two vertical strips of alternating stylized leaves of white color with offsets of scrolling branches with leaves rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples
Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Pearls and Stylized Leaves 1840 Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century 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 strips of pearls joined by groups of three smaller pearls of light tan color framed by two vertical strips of alternating stylized leaves of white color with offsets of scrolling branches with leaves rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples, separated by strips of alternating pearls of two sizes, the smaller ones colored with white. The larger pearls are colored with green, orange and purple. The base of the design is of light tan Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Pearls and Stylized Leaves. Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century. 1840. Gouache
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