AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY
Early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a young boy with a skipping rope and a seated man with a bow and quiver before a target nailed to a tree, set within an open wooded landcape with a townscape beyond, within borders of acanthus and florally-wrapped columns and a later outer slip to top and bottom and with a later inner slip to the left and bottom where it has been previously cut, reweaving and patching
113½ in.x 100 in. (288 cm. x 254 cm.)

Lot Essay

A tapestry of closely related design was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 16 September 1992, lot 264, while another with the same youth skipping and with the same figure seated in the foreground, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 14 December 1995, lot 226.

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