Design for Embroidery with a Variety of Bundles with Stylized and Exotic Flowers and Leaves
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Drawing with a variety of design motifs for embroidery typical from the 19th century, which saw a revival of styles, including the Calssicism of Greece and Rome, Renaissance styles, Rococo and Neoclassicism. These revivals were linked to the "collector mania" that took place especially after 1850, and coincided with the Romantic movement in literature that saw in the past an escape from modernity. Some of the most common design motifs that emerged from this renewed interest in antiquarianism were naturalistic and floral motifs, including thin garlands and bundles, vases, classical musical instruments, and ribbons.
This drawing presents a variety of small bundles of stylized flowers and leaves, some of them on vases, rendered with a variety of colors, among which predominate shades of pink, orange, yellow, purple and blue; most of the leaves are colored with shades of green. Some of the bundles are made up of small rosettes and leaves, some contain large stylized acanthus leaves rendered with various shades of similar color scales, some present stylized roses and berries, and some have varieties of stylized exotic flowers. Some of the bundles are also tied by a ribbon bow, and some lie on vases, which are creatively decorated with patterns of lozenges or stripes decorated with dots and lines. Some of the vases also contain monogrammed 'M's and a 'C', which would have most likely been changed to meet specific design needs, and some are made up of heart shapes framed by stylized elongated leaves. There is also one motif with two intersecting scrolling feathers colored with aquamarine and, towards the bottom of the sheet, in the left, are two horizontal thin garlands: one is made up of thin branches with small leaves that scroll around tiny pink rosettes, held together by a horizontal undulating strip of blue dots; the other is made up of a thin undulating garland with tiny leaves and blue and pink tiny rosettes with an interlacing ribbon colored with a light shade of grayish-purple.
