THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A BEAUVAIS VERDURE TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, with a herm on a circular plinth standing above a grotesque mask surrounded by serpents spouting water into a shallow gadrooned trough, within a wooded landscape with birds, the bead-and-reel inner border and floral and foliate outer border centred by a coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet at the top and within a yellow slip, areas of re-weaving and patching, restorations, reduced in height and width, previously cut, mid-18th Century
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A BEAUVAIS VERDURE TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, with a herm on a circular plinth standing above a grotesque mask surrounded by serpents spouting water into a shallow gadrooned trough, within a wooded landscape with birds, the bead-and-reel inner border and floral and foliate outer border centred by a coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet at the top and within a yellow slip, areas of re-weaving and patching, restorations, reduced in height and width, previously cut, mid-18th Century
104½in. x 78½in. (266cm. x 200cm.)
104½in. x 78½in. (266cm. x 200cm.)