Textile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular Frame

Textile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular Frame

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 rows of bunches of stylized flowers and stems of red color with white outlines with leaves framed by a shade of thorns of light tan color with offsets in tan color, separated by vertical garland of branches of light tan color and offsets of light color with an undulating ribbon with pearls and small styilized flowers of white color inside a circular frame over a dark reddish-brown ground.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Textile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular FrameTextile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular FrameTextile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular FrameTextile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular FrameTextile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular Frame

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