Archive for the ‘Tapestry’ Category

ORIENTAL TEXTILES

Friday, February 26th, 2010

ORIENTAL TEXTILES
A navy blue three-quarter-length
Coat, circa 1850, embroidered with
roundels, worked with fruit and foliage.
A large Chinese Bedcover, late
19th Century, the red silk ground
embroidered with multi-colored
flowers; together with a blue and red silk
Altar Hanging embroidered with birds
and flowers; and various other Pieces,
(5 pieces in all).
A wool felt Bedcover, Indian,
mid- 19th Century, the green ground
embroidered in blue [...]

ANTIQUE TAPESTRIES AND NEEDLEWORK PICTURES

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

ANTIQUE TAPESTRIES AND NEEDLEWORK PICTURES
A GOOD POST-MORTLAKE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of Pygmalion sculpting the image of a maiden, observed by Minerva, beyond holding a naming torch as a symbol of his love he implores Venus to bring the statue to life, baroque buildings in the distance and a fountain in a grove [...]

Antique French Tapestry

Monday, December 28th, 2009

TAPESTRIES
A GROS POINT NEEDLEWORK TABLE CARPET with forty-two oblong panels worked
with flowering plants and fruiting trees, some in hillocky landscapes with animais, the
others with pond foreground and waterfowl, ail with tobacco-coloured background and
divided by ivory strapwork embroidered with flowers, much of the detail in petit point,
6ft. lin. by 6ft. Hin. (185cm. by 210cm.) circa 1600, [...]

AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY, Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRY, Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY, Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRY, Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
A FINE AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY of The Fountain of Love, from the series
La Noble Pastorale, after Frangois Boucher, three pairs of figures grouped around a large
stone fountain, including two girls untying a billet-doux from the neck of a dove,
9ft. lOin. [...]

TABRIZ RUG - KASHAN RAISED SILK RUG - NERIZ RUG - ESFAHAN RUG

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

TABRIZ RUG - KASHAN RAISED SILK RUG - NERIZ RUG - ESFAHAN RUG
A KASHAN RAISED SILK RUG, the ivory field with a central vase of flowers surrounded by vines and flowerheads, with an ivory cartouche border, twin guard stripes, 6ft. lOin. by
4ft. 3in. (208cm. by 129cm.), circa 1920, condition: fair, slight damage.
AN ANTIQUE SENNEH RUG, [...]

BORDJALOU KAZAKH RUG - ANTIQUE DERBEND RUNNER - ANTIQUE KUBA KELLEH - RARE UKRANIAN RUNNER

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

BORDJALOU KAZAKH RUG - ANTIQUE DERBEND RUNNER - ANTIQUE KUBA KELLEH -  RARE UKRANIAN RUNNER
A PIRBEDIL RUG, the pale indigo field with rams’ horns and flowerheads, a walnut Kufic border, two inner and one outer guard stripes, 4ft. 2in. by 3ft. (127cm. by 91cm.), circa
1900, condition: f air, slight wear.
A TALYSH RUNNER, with a plain [...]

KASHAN PART SILK RUG - GHOM SILK PRAYER RUG - ANTIQUE SENNEH RUG - NINGSHIA RUNNER

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

KASHAN PART SILK RUG - GHOM SILK PRAYER RUG - ANTIQUE SENNEH RUG - NINGSHIA RUNNER
A KASHAN PART SILK RUG, the madder field with a pale blue pole medallion and ivory spandrels, with an overall design of sprays of flowers, an indigo arabesque and flowerhead
border, two inner and three outer guard stripes, 7ft. lOin. by [...]

NORTH GERMAN TAPESTRY CUSHION COVERS - FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY - BRUSSELS TAPESTRY OF THE LAMENTATION - Louis XV FELLETIN VERDURE TAPESTRY PANEL

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

NORTH GERMAN TAPESTRY CUSHION COVERS - FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY - BRUSSELS TAPESTRY OF THE LAMENTATION - Louis XV FELLETIN VERDURE TAPESTRY PANEL
A PAIR OF NORTH GERMAN TAPESTRY CUSHION COVERS, one woven with John the
Baptist preaching in the Wilderness (Mark 1:4) the other with the Beheading (Mark 6:28)
surrounded by brightly coloured floral borders woven with roses, [...]