THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(Lots 360-361)
A LOUIS XIV AUBUSSON TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from the story of Alexander the Great, depicting an elderly injured figure supported by two soldiers being presented to Alexander, shown seated on a horse wearing a plumed hat, who beckons him forth with his outstretched arm and in a landscape setting within a foliate border woven with cannons, drums, pipes and armour within ribbon-tied flowers suspended from grotesque masks on a dark brown ground and within a yellow outer strip, restorations and areas of re-weaving, the top and bottom borders lacking, reduced in height, late 17th Century
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A LOUIS XIV AUBUSSON TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from the story of Alexander the Great, depicting an elderly injured figure supported by two soldiers being presented to Alexander, shown seated on a horse wearing a plumed hat, who beckons him forth with his outstretched arm and in a landscape setting within a foliate border woven with cannons, drums, pipes and armour within ribbon-tied flowers suspended from grotesque masks on a dark brown ground and within a yellow outer strip, restorations and areas of re-weaving, the top and bottom borders lacking, reduced in height, late 17th Century
106 x 91in. (269 x 231cm.)
106 x 91in. (269 x 231cm.)