LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY, AFTER DESIGNS BY JACQUES DE KERCHOVE AND ADRIEN CAMPION

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A BEAUVAIS VERDURE TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
Late 17th early 18th Century, after designs by Jacques de Kerchove and Adrien Campion
Woven in wools and silks, from the series of seaports, depicting a coast landscape with an Italian palazzo by the sea, with an anchored sailing ship and figures unloading it, with various larger sailing ships in the distance, the foreground with various cranes, an emu, a flying fish, ducks and sea creatures below a tree canopy with further flying birds, within a later yellow and blue outer slip, reduced in size, lacking borders, cut and re-attached at the top, minor areas of re-weaving and patching
104in. x 112in. (264cm. x 285cm.)

Lot Essay

This tapestry is part of a set of seaports first woven at the Royal Beauvais Manufactory before 1693 under the directorship of Philip Béhagle (1684-1711) after the seaports by Jacques de Kerchove and Adrien Campion. This series was also woven under the directorship of Noël-Antoine Mérou (1722-1734). In absence of a border, it is difficult to know to which period this belongs to. A set of this series ordered in 1695 by Daniel Cronström, the Swedish envoy, for Count Carl Piper, is at Björnstorp Castle in Sweden (illustrated in F. Joubert et.al., Historie de la Tapisserie, Paris, 1995, p. 155, and S. Kjellberg, Slott och Herresäten i Sverige, Malmö, 1966, p. 35). A tapestry of identical subject, but extended to the right, was sold from the property of Sir John Smith C.B.E., removed from Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire, in these Rooms, 29 November 1990, lot 11.

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