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A BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silk, depicting amorous young couples and peasants gathering flowers in an extensive wooded landscape with a fountain beyond in the form of a figure wielding a club against a dragon, with a river in the middle foreground and a walled formal parterre beyond with further fountains and pavillions and a chateau beyond, the borders woven with foliate arabesques on a tan ground and with a central lambrequin cartouches, in a blue outer slip, restorations and areas of re-weaving, elements of the borders replaced, reduced in width and height, late 17th Century

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A BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silk, depicting amorous young couples and peasants gathering flowers in an extensive wooded landscape with a fountain beyond in the form of a figure wielding a club against a dragon, with a river in the middle foreground and a walled formal parterre beyond with further fountains and pavillions and a chateau beyond, the borders woven with foliate arabesques on a tan ground and with a central lambrequin cartouches, in a blue outer slip, restorations and areas of re-weaving, elements of the borders replaced, reduced in width and height, late 17th Century
129 x 200in. (328 x 508cm.)

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