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SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
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A LILLE VERDURE TAPESTRY
Second half 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a wooded landscape with a parrot and centred by a hawk attacking a pheasant, with a formal garden to the background consisting of a water canal leading to a castle and centred by a rocaille fountain, flanked by trees, bushes and thistle, within a foliate scrolled strapwork border centred by lambrequin-filled shaped cartouches and reciprocal cartouches to the angles, with a beige and blue outer slip, reduced in height with a horizontal cut through the field, with associated reweaving
9 ft. 7 in. x 11 ft. 1 in. (292 cm. x 338 cm.)
Second half 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a wooded landscape with a parrot and centred by a hawk attacking a pheasant, with a formal garden to the background consisting of a water canal leading to a castle and centred by a rocaille fountain, flanked by trees, bushes and thistle, within a foliate scrolled strapwork border centred by lambrequin-filled shaped cartouches and reciprocal cartouches to the angles, with a beige and blue outer slip, reduced in height with a horizontal cut through the field, with associated reweaving
9 ft. 7 in. x 11 ft. 1 in. (292 cm. x 338 cm.)