Toile d'Alsace 'Le Bal', large cotton fabric depicting scenes from a lavish masked ball, based on a design by the Mulhouse wallpaper designer George Zipélius, printed in violet, hand-quilted on cream white linen backing, approx. 1670 x 1200mm., [Mulhouse, c.1845] Footnotes: A large furnishing fabric, probably for the back of a bed, depicting scenes of a magnificent ball including various dancing couples, violinists and musicians, fashionable onlookers seated in balcony boxes festooned with drapes and lit by blazing chandeliers. Trained in Paris as a painter George Zipélius (1808-1890) later moved to Mulhouse where he specialised in wallpaper designs. Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing