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18TH CENTURY
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A GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
18th Century
Depicting three classically-clad maidens making devotions and raising torches to a statue of the goddess Ceres, flanked to the left by an old man pouring water onto a ceremonial fire and surrounded by children and with a young man sacrificing a goat in the foreground and holding the knife in his mouth, and to the right by a flaming torchere carved with ram's heads and sphinxes, within later guard borders
9ft.3in. x 10ft.2in. (235cm. x 305cm.), approximately
18th Century
Depicting three classically-clad maidens making devotions and raising torches to a statue of the goddess Ceres, flanked to the left by an old man pouring water onto a ceremonial fire and surrounded by children and with a young man sacrificing a goat in the foreground and holding the knife in his mouth, and to the right by a flaming torchere carved with ram's heads and sphinxes, within later guard borders
9ft.3in. x 10ft.2in. (235cm. x 305cm.), approximately