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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A LOUIS XIV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
GOBELINS OR BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH CENTURY
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A LOUIS XIV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
GOBELINS OR BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Woven in silks, wools, gold- and silver-metal threads, depicting 'Apollo and Muses' from a series of 'The Story of Apollo', with Apollo and the muses in a wooded landscape with cupid to the right presenting a floral wreath, classical ruins to the left, within a fruiting foliage and flower-filled border decorated to the corners with stylised rosettes and with a blue outer slip
9 ft. 8 in. x 14 ft. 7 in. (295 cm. x 444 cm.)
GOBELINS OR BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Woven in silks, wools, gold- and silver-metal threads, depicting 'Apollo and Muses' from a series of 'The Story of Apollo', with Apollo and the muses in a wooded landscape with cupid to the right presenting a floral wreath, classical ruins to the left, within a fruiting foliage and flower-filled border decorated to the corners with stylised rosettes and with a blue outer slip
9 ft. 8 in. x 14 ft. 7 in. (295 cm. x 444 cm.)
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Gillian Ward
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