FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN AUBUSSON ARMORIAL TAPESTRY
First Half 19th Century
Woven in wools depicting the arms of Charles William Stewart-Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, and those of his second wife Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest, surmounted by a Marquess' coronet flanked by a griffin crest and a crest of an armoured hand holding a sword, the arms supported by two mounted Hussars of the 10th Regiment, above foliate scrolls and the motto METUNDA COROLLA DRACONIS and within an orange and brown outer border, the corners and the top of the outer border strengthened
69½in. x 89½in. (177cm. x 227cm.)

Lot Essay

The 'sumpter cloth' tapestry was commissioned by Charles William Stewart-Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854), following his palatial aggrandisement in the 1820s of Londonderry House, Mayfair and Wynyard Park, County Durham, both of which were furnished in the French Louis Quatorze manner. The Marquess, who succeeded George, Prince Regent as Colonel of the 10th Hussars in 1820, may have ordered the tapestry at the time of his appointment as King William IV's ambassador to the Court at St. Petersburg in 1835.

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