Caption

Three tapestry armchair covers, varietals, provenance, floral ornaments, genre scenes, interior furnishings, garlands, furniture upholstery, decorative fabrics, tapestries. Scenes: a boy sitting on a hillock playing a flute, b boy watering flowers, c girl sitting on a hillock. 2nd half of the 18th century, Aubusson; fabrics; height 27.5 cm, width 35 cm., A worn textile fragment with a rounded top set against a light gray background, showing a faded scene woven in muted tones of brown, beige, pink, red, green, and cream; the upper area features a decorative swag and floral border in pink, cream, and brown, while below a figure wearing a dark hat and a red garment stands next to a planter of pink flowers atop a rectangular base, with additional curtain-like drapery in pink and brown framing the scene and a brown ground along the bottom.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A11_224

License type

Rights managed

Available size

77.3Mb (4.2Mb) / 15.0in x 20.0in / 4501 x 6000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Three tapestry armchair covers varietals provenance floral ornaments genre scenes interior furnishings garlands furniture upholstery decorative fabrics tapestries Scenes boy sitting hillock playing flute b boy watering flowers c girl sitting hillock 2nd half 18th century Aubusson fabrics height 27.5 cm width 35 cm worn textile fragment rounded top set light gray background showing faded scene woven muted tones brown beige pink red green cream upper area features decorative swag floral border figure wearing dark hat red garment stands next planter pink flowers atop rectangular base additional curtain- drapery brown framing scene brown ground bottom.