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AN AUBUSSON SILK AND WOOL TAPESTRY
SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Worked in colors and depicting youths tending a rose garden within classical gardens before recumbent sphinxes and a figure of Bacchus within later borders of entwined fruiting foliage (areas of reweaving), together with a contemporary border panel fragment depicting flower filled classical vessels and allegorical figures - the tapestry 91in. (221.5cm.) x 101.5in. (258cm.); the panel 22.5in. (57cm.) x 101.5 (258cm.)
SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Worked in colors and depicting youths tending a rose garden within classical gardens before recumbent sphinxes and a figure of Bacchus within later borders of entwined fruiting foliage (areas of reweaving), together with a contemporary border panel fragment depicting flower filled classical vessels and allegorical figures - the tapestry 91in. (221.5cm.) x 101.5in. (258cm.); the panel 22.5in. (57cm.) x 101.5 (258cm.)