Lot Essay
The Inventaire Général des Meubles de la Couronne under Louis XIV mentions a series of tapestries representing vases of flowers and palm leaves with a white background and a brown border decorated with foliage and fruits. The inventory does not include the origin of the tapestries but they are likely of Dutch or Franco-Flemish manufacture. The Hermitage Museum, which owns one of the largest known tapestries of this type, has attributed it to the Dutch workshops in Delft (see J. Guiffrey, Inventaire du Mobilier de la Couronne sous Louis XIV, Première partie, Paris, 1885).