A PAIR OF BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY CUSHIONS

THE TAPESTRY MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY CUSHIONS
The tapestry mid-18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, each depicting a scene from Aesop's fables, one with a wolf and a stalk with its beak down a jar, in a wooded landscape, the other with a cockerel baiting a bear tied to a tree, both in foliate borders, with later green and yellow tasseled fringe and green silk damask reverse, restorations, the green silk distressed
One cushion: 20 in. x 21½ in. (51 cm. x 54.5 cm.)
The other: 20 in. x 22½ in. (51 cm. x 57 cm.) (2)

拍場告示

The illustration is incorrectly labelled. Lot 181 is the top left-hand cushion and the middle left-hand cushion.

拍品專文

Around 1730 Jean-Baptiste Oudry executed almost 300 drawings inspired by Jean de La Fontaine's Fables, and copies by Charles Nicolas Cochin were published in 1755. Various related suites of upholstered furniture are discussed in E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, no. 100.