Textile Design with Alternating Quatrefoils Bordered with Pearls and Framed by Interlacing Ribbons 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 alternating quatrefoils of dark red color framed by pearls with offsetting thorns rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color on a light tan ground. The quatrefoils are framed by interlacing ribbons of light tan color with dark reddish-brown border and shade. The pearls bordering the quatrefoils are colored with white. Some of the quatrefoils in the left half of the design are adorned with an ellipse of black color, making them look more like rosettes.. Textile Design with Alternating Quatrefoils Bordered with Pearls and Framed by Interlacing Ribbons. Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century. 1840. Gouache