A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY

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Lot 19 | A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY
A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY

AFTER THE DESIGN BY CHARLES LE BRUN, 1690-1700

Woven in wools and silks with the Royal Arms of France and Navarre, above a palm-wrapped 'L' and St. Esprit, with scrolled armorial cartouche surmounted by two winged putti holding aloft the Royal Crown and flanked by figures emblematic of Fame and Flora, within an egg-and-dart molded shaped slip frame and further border woven with oak leaves

Approximately 9 ft. 2 in. (279.5 cm.) by 7 ft. 5 in. (226 cm.)





Provenance

Possibly Château de Langeais, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-18 December 1886, lot 765.

The Collection of William K. Vanderbilt, Idle Hour, Oakdale, New York.

Furniture & Furnishings from Idle Hour, former country residence of the Late William K. Vanderbilt; American Art Association, New York, 29 April 1926, lot 444.

The Collection of Edmund Glenn Burke.

Thence by descent to the present owner.
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