A LOUIS XIV AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY
A LOUIS XIV AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY

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A LOUIS XIV AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY
Woven in wools, depicting an open landscape with a crane standing in the foreground about to fly away, flanking a chinoiserie tree with blue fruits and to the left with a further tree, above a flying bird and the distance with a lake with ducks and the background with a hilly landscape with a Chinese stepped pagoda, within a foliate scrolling border and a brown outer slip, minor areas of reweaving, the outer slip lacking to the top and bottom, the outer slip to each side turned over
8 ft. 2 in. x 7ft. 1 in. (247 cm. x 217 cm.)

拍品專文

A tapestry of identical design but varying border is illustrated in H. Gbel, Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufacturen, Leipzig, 1928, vol. II, part II, fig. 292.