Design for Embroidery with Series of Motifs with Vases, Musical Instruments, Flaming Hearts, Birds, Flowers and Leaves

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 series of design motifs, arranged in three rows with two groups of three motifs each, with flowers, leaves, vases and musical instruments. All the designs are rendered with pastel colors and present common motifs. The first three design motifs contain thin bundles with green leaves and stylized flowers colored with shades of pink, yellow and blue; one of them (in the middle) is tied by a ribbon. The second group contains a carmine vase with two s-curve handles surrounded by thin scrolls with green leaves and flowers colored with pink, yellow and blue, and with a dragonfly flying upside-down above it, her body colored with pink and brown and her wings with yellow and pink. In the center, two flaming hearts, one colored with yellow and the other with pink, with arrows surrounded by two laurel leaves float above a draginfly with brown body and yellow wings. The laurel leaves are colored with green and yellow, and end with a small flower: red on one side and blue on the other. The third motif contains two scrolling stylized acanthus leaves, colored with green, and two thin scrolling stems with green leaves and a pink flower bud, from which emerges a long, thin scrolling branch with green leaves, a pink flower bud, and a larger rosette with pink petals and yellow pistils.

The second row contains a pair of vases: one with two ears and a small floral motif colored with red over a blue ground and a green palmette from which emerge long, thin scrolling leaves and a long stem with brown leaves and a rosette with pink petals; the other also with two ears but colored simply with light brown, and containing a variety of thin branches with leaves that en in thin flowers or flower buds colored with pink, yellow and gray. To their right is a fan motif colored with blue and with a black oattern of lozenges, surrounded on the sides by two thin undulating stems with leaves, each ending with a stylized flower, one with yellow petals and pink pistils, the other with brown petals and green pistils. A semi-circle formed by small pink dots is formed above the fan and between the two flowers. This is followed by a heart motif with a yellow border and a pattern of lozenges colored with pink, upon which stand two brown birds, surrounded by thin scrolling branches with green leaves, and pink, yellow and blue flowers and flower buds. Another brown bird, flying upside-down with its wings open lies above the two birds. A similar motif is placed to its right, with two inverted flaming hearts, one with yellow lozenges and the other with pink circles, two flying orange birds above them, and a stylized butterfly with pink and red body and blue wings hanging upside-down between the birds, all of them framed by thin scrolling green branches with leaves, adorned by three larger leaves above. In between these two large bird motifs appears a smaller one, with a yellow basket with tiny brown nestlings and a larger brown bird flying, wings open, upside down with a worm in its peak to feed its offsprings. The basket is surrounded by two thin garlands with green leaves and yellow and blue flower buds, forming a heart shape with the body of the grown bird around the nestlings.

The third row contains two motifs with stylized lire framed by thin garlands with green leaves and blue, yellow and pink stylized flowers and flower buds. The frame of the first lira is colored with blue and green and ends in what are probably two stylized acanthus leaves; the second is colored with shades of pink and ends with two simple stylized leaves. The motif with the blue lira is followed by a stylized vase with two ears, colored with brown and decorated with orange triangles and shuttle shapes, holding a bundle of long stylized green leaves and green branches with stylized flowers and flower buds colored with pink, blue, yellos and green. Next to it is a rosette with blue shuttle-shaped petals around a group of pink pearls that form its pistils on a long, thin, brown stem with two large stylized green leaves that is interlaced by two scrolling branches with green leaves that end in two stylized flower buds, one yellow and one pink. This row ends with two additional motifs with birds: a small one of two hearts, one yellow and blue and one pink, held together by a blue arrow and flanked by two intersecting scrolling branches with green leaves and red flower buds upon which stand kissing two exotic birds with pink, yellow, blue and brown feathers and tiny blue-and-yellow ribbon bows tied around their necks; and the other slightly larger, with two thin branches with green leaves and pink and blue rosettes and flower buds that scroll to form a stylized heart shape around two brown birds that stand on the leaves inside the heart.