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A historic tapestry illustrating the “Banquet of Cleopatra”, Manufactory of Aubusson-Fellletin, France, 1640 circa
Woven in wool and silk
400 x 393 cm
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, richly dressed, attend an opulent banquet in a garden, surrounded by soldiers and servants. An elegant border richly adorned with flowers and foliage frames the scene.
Tapestries were used to richly decorate a house and keep the heat inside a room by diminishing the cold radiation of the stones. It could be quickly and easily disassembled to be transported to another house. From a millefleurs decor at the beginning of the art of tapestry, the weavers have managed to increase the woven surfaces allowing the narrative unfolding of a story (biblical, mythological or literary stories) through hangings, set of tapestries on the same subject.
Some reweavings.
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ORIENTAL RUGS FROM THE 19th TO THE EARLY 20th CENTURY - Including a few French Antique Tapestries
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