Archive for the ‘Tapestry’ Category
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: 17th century, ANOTHER, Antique, ATTRACTIVE, baroque buildings, BIBLICAL, black background, chinese figures, chinese temple, CHINOISERIES, classical dictionary, COURT, ENGLISH, FRAGMENTS, important english, mandarin, MYTHOLOGICAL, NEEDLEWORK, needlework panel, PICTURE, porcelain vases, POST-MORTLAKE, pygmalion and galatea, scallop shells, second wife, sided border, TAPESTRIES, Tapestry, torch
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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, [...]
Tags: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, ANOTHER, Antique, ANTWERP, blue ribbon, border pieces, Boucher, BRUSSELS, Charles Le, COVER, ENSI, FELLETIN, flemish tapestry, floral border, floral design, flowering plants, flowering trees, FRAGMENT, Franco-Flemish, FRANCO-FLEMISH TAPESTRY, LANDSCAPE, Louis XIII, Louis XV, LOUIS XVI, medallion, MYTHOLOGICAL, NEEDLEWORK, oblong, PANEL, PART, pastoral, pomegranate, sable field, sided border, summer flowers, TAPESTRIES, tapestry border, TENT, venus and adonis, yellow border
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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. [...]
Tags: 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, A Louis XIV, A Louis XV, Adonis, ANOTHER, atalanta, AUBUSSON, Bacchus, background, billet doux, borders, Boucher, BRUSSELS, cartouche, Century, colour, flemish, forest landscape, Fountain, FRANCO-FLEMISH VERDURE, Franz Van, General, gobel, HUNTING, hunting trophies, LANDSCAPE, louis xiv, Louis XV, MYTHOLOGICAL, Noble Pastorale, pastoral, side columns, SIMILAR, stone fountain, TAPESTRV, Tapestry, tapisserie, TEMPLE, THREAD, washington national gallery, water garden
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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, [...]
Tags: 180cm, Antique, birds, central vase, con, design, Esfahan, field, FINE, floral border, flowers, GELIM, GHOM, indigo, ivory, JOSHAGHAN, Kashan, lOin, MASHHAD, modem, PART, PRAYER, prayer rug, RAISED, rug, rugs, RUNNER, saffron, serrated leaves, shadesof, silk rug, SIMILAR, spandrel, stripes, TABRIZ, Tabriz Rug, TEHERAN, turtle, vases, vines
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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 [...]
Tags: Antique, ARMENIAN, baku, BORDJALOU, con, condition, DAGHESTAN, DERBEND, design, FRACHLO, guard, guis, honeycomb, indigo, ivory, KAZAK, kazakh, Kelleh, KHILA, Kufic, medallions, mehrab, MOGHAN, PIRBEDIL, prayer rug, RUNNER, shirvan, spandrels, trelliswork, two rows, UKRANIAN, vine border
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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 [...]
Tags: animal, arabesque, arabesques, bird, borders, CHINESE, condition, design, field, floral border, GHOM, inner border, Kashan, lOin, medallion, medallions, mehrab, MOHTASHAM, NINGSHIA, outer border, palmette, pattern, Pictorial, PRAYER, RUNNER, saffron, silk carpet, silk prayer rug, silk rug, spandrels, TABRIZ, taoist symbols
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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, [...]
Tags: 19th century, ANOTHER, ANTWERP, arabesque, background, BIBLICAL, Christ, colour, COVERS, EMBROIDERED, FELLETIN, floral border, floral borders, FRAGMENT, FRANCO-FLEMISH TAPESTRY, Jean-Baptiste Huet, LAMENTATION, Louis XV, Lowlands, mark 1, mark 6, Mary Magdalene, medallion, medallions, NEEDLEWORK, NORTH, pattern, Priest, Queen, red velvet, roses tulips, shades, SIMILAR, stripes
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