ID 1027805
Lot 449 | A LOUIS XIV BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY
Valeur estimée
$ 40 000 – 60 000
AFTER A DESIGN BY GUY VERNANSAL, JEAN-BAPTISTE BELIN DE FONTENAY AND JEAN-BAPTISTE MONNOYER, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven in wools, silks and silver thread, depicting 'The Return from the Hunt' (Le retour de la chasse) from the series L'histoire de l'Empereur de la Chine, the background depicting a blue sky with birds above a large lambrequin supported by a two-arched canopy before a richly-decorated tent containing a monumental silver throne surmounted by ostrich feathers with an attendant to its left, the foreground with three figures in Chinoiserie dress on an elaborately woven polychrome carpet standing before a man on his knees before an incense burner and offerings of game, the border with stylized leaves; reduced in size, areas of reweaving, restorations
141 in. (358 cm.) high, 105 in. (267 cm.) wide
Provenance
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 9 and 12.
| Matériel: | Soie, Textiles, Laine |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, France, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tapisseries |
| Matériel: | Soie, Textiles, Laine |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, France, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tapisseries |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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