Lot n° 373
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Important mid-18th-century Aubusson tapestry - Lot 373
Important mid-18th-century Aubusson tapestry
Dimensions: 284 cm high x 203 cm wide
Design based on a cartoon by Jean Baptiste Pillement
Made of wool and silk
Lined and braided tapestry.
Note the touch of red, a mark of quality.
Remarkably fresh colors, beautiful polychromy, and a lovely palette of blues, greens, yellows, reds, and browns typical of foliage, in the spirit of Aubusson chinoiserie from around 1760.
In good condition, with a few slight areas of natural oxidation.
Featuring a design of large exotic trees (palm trees) forming plant columns that frame very abundant and deliberately fantastical vegetation.
Features exotic birds, notably a large wading bird in the foreground on the right.
Asian and Oriental-style architecture in the background, rendered in perspective (pavilion, pagoda) near a body of water.
Beautiful border decorated with rows of star-shaped flowers on an abrache background (shades of brown wool)
Beautiful framing that creates a picture-frame effect
Sources:
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon).
Petit Palais (Paris)
Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie (Aubusson)
Mobilier National
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