Lot 375
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AN AUBUSSON TAPESTRY, woven in wools, depicting the stoning of two martyrs bound to a tree, in an extensive landscape with a city beyond, all within a beaded inner slip and foliate outer border woven with fruits and stylised sprays on a yellow ground, 17th Century, extensive restorations and areas of reweaving, with some recolouring

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AN AUBUSSON TAPESTRY, woven in wools, depicting the stoning of two martyrs bound to a tree, in an extensive landscape with a city beyond, all within a beaded inner slip and foliate outer border woven with fruits and stylised sprays on a yellow ground, 17th Century, extensive restorations and areas of reweaving, with some recolouring
108 x 93in. (272 x 236cm.)

Lot Essay

Inspired by Ovid's Metemorphoses, Love's Triumph is represented by Jupiter, the loving abductor, in the guise of a cow, removing the nymph Europa from her companions who gather flowers at the water's edge

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