A GOBELINS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting des enfants jardinières frolicking with a goat and flowers in the foreground, with two nymphs gathering fruits and flowers seated on a rock in an arcadian landscape with shepherds and a fountain with Jupiter and Mercury on a cloud-burst, the shadowed borders with repeated foliate scrolls centred by a laurel-wreath flanked by flaming oil-lamps beneath pointed crowns and centred by a flaming altar, cut and reduced slightly, minor restorations, early 18th Century

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A GOBELINS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting des enfants jardinières frolicking with a goat and flowers in the foreground, with two nymphs gathering fruits and flowers seated on a rock in an arcadian landscape with shepherds and a fountain with Jupiter and Mercury on a cloud-burst, the shadowed borders with repeated foliate scrolls centred by a laurel-wreath flanked by flaming oil-lamps beneath pointed crowns and centred by a flaming altar, cut and reduced slightly, minor restorations, early 18th Century
131½ x 178in. (333 x 452cm.)

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