Lot 5
5
A FELLETIN VERDURE TAPESTRY woven in silks and wools with travellers in a landscape with herons in a pond, the foreground with stylised flowerheads, the wide borders with cartouche vignettes and flowerheads amid foliage, late 17th Century, areas of reweaving

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A FELLETIN VERDURE TAPESTRY woven in silks and wools with travellers in a landscape with herons in a pond, the foreground with stylised flowerheads, the wide borders with cartouche vignettes and flowerheads amid foliage, late 17th Century, areas of reweaving
10ft. 2in. x 13ft. 6in. (3.10m. x 3.50m.)

Lot Essay

Felletin and Aubusson were the two main tapestry centres of the district of La Marche. Colbert, following his reorganisation of the two factories, prescribed blue borders for Aubusson tapestries in 1665 and brown for Felletin in 1689
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