LATE 17TH CENTURY
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AN AUBUSSON MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Late 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Mercury about to storm a castle and prevented by an angel in a cloud carrying a sceptre, with a floral and foliate border above and below, reweaving and patching particularly to the lower border, lacking borders to the sides
125 in. x 56 in. (317 cm. x 142 cm.)
Late 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Mercury about to storm a castle and prevented by an angel in a cloud carrying a sceptre, with a floral and foliate border above and below, reweaving and patching particularly to the lower border, lacking borders to the sides
125 in. x 56 in. (317 cm. x 142 cm.)
Provenance
Marquis Antoine Forbin de la Barben.
Thence by descent.
Thence by descent.