A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON CHINOISERIE VERDURE TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks with a coastal landscape with a stork amidst foliage and trees, a parakeet on a rock, a pagoda upon an overhanging rock, with a junk and a coastal town in the background, the border woven with peaches, fruit and foliage and flowers twisting around a pole, the angles with scrolled panels, with outer blue border with inscription M R DAVBVSSON P MONTEZER, the border to one side replaced, possibly originally larger

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A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON CHINOISERIE VERDURE TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks with a coastal landscape with a stork amidst foliage and trees, a parakeet on a rock, a pagoda upon an overhanging rock, with a junk and a coastal town in the background, the border woven with peaches, fruit and foliage and flowers twisting around a pole, the angles with scrolled panels, with outer blue border with inscription M R DAVBVSSON P MONTEZER, the border to one side replaced, possibly originally larger
123in. x 79in. (312cm. x 201cm.)

Lot Essay

Pierre de Montezert (1708-1747) named in 17 March 1733 "Tenturier pour Sa Majesté des Manufactures de Tapisseries établies en la Ville et Fauxbourgs d'Aubusson".

A larger tapestry with this scene as the central section was sold in these Rooms 19 May 1966 lot 128.

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