Lot 243
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A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY
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A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY
Mid-18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a turkey, a crane and a parrot in a landscape at a lakeshore with a temple ruin to the right and various oriental buildings in the background, within a floral trellis border, within a yellow and blue outer slip, signed in the middle of the lower border 'I.N.MANIEATVRER.DAUBUSSON', minor reweaving
112 in. (284.5 cm.) high; 173 in. (440 cm.) wide
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Tapestries of identical subject but with varying borders were sold in these Rooms, 18 May 1967, lot 149, and 12 November 1987, lot 208. A version signed by C. Conceix is illustrated in G.L. Hunter, The Practical Book of Tapestries, London, 1925, plate XIIIb.

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