Posts Tagged ‘LANDSCAPE’
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, [...]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
JOSHAGHAN CARPET, BIDJAR AUDIENCE CARPET, KASHAN CARPET, ZIEGLER FARAGHAN CARPET, KASHAN NATANZ PICTORIAL RUG, TABRIZ PICTORIAL RUG
A KASHAN RAISED PART SILK PRAYER CARPET, the ivory mehrab with a central tree, flanked by columns, cypress trees and birds, madder floral spandrels, an ivory border of
palmettes, vines and birds, triple guard stripes, lOft. llin. by 8ft. 3in. [...]
Tags: animais, ANOTHER, Antique, Bidjar, camel field, carpet, central medallion, circa, cypress tree, cypress trees, design, diamond medallion, FARAGHAN, FINE, floral borders, flowerhead, HAMADAN, JOSHAGHAN, Kashan, kashan carpet, kashmir, Khorassan, LANDSCAPE, MASHHAD, medallion, mehrab, NATANZ, NORTH, palmette, Persian, Pictorial, pistachio, PRAYER, RAISED, rose madder, SENNEH, SILK, silk carpet, SIMILAR, spandrels, TABRIZ, walnut, ZIEGLER
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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. [...]
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