Caption

Ornamental tapestry, Late 18th century, Flanders. This ceiling floor tapestry has symmetrical decoration: a central rosette surrounded by two floral and leafy wreaths; corner compositions of horns filled with flowers, lyres, and intertwined acanthus leaves; overall frame of leaves and rosettes. Border repeats leaves, rosettes, and flowers. Colors: cream, olive, and sand background with pink, green, and blue ornament. Materials: woven fabrics. Dimensions: height 517 cm, width 460 cm., A large rectangular textile with a central circular medallion surrounded by floral motifs and ornate corner decorations, featuring a background of muted brown and ochre tones with accents of pink, rose, green, gold, and cream; a broad border in a lighter tan or beige frames the piece, decorated with repeated floral garlands in pink and green, and inner narrow bands in gold; the central medallion has concentric floral patterns in rose, pink, cream, and green, and is encircled by a wreath-like design in reddish tones; each corner contains elaborate urn-like or swag elements with cascading flowers in pink, cream, and green set against the darker brown field; the overall surface shows variations in tone and some worn areas where the underlying weave and faded colors are visible.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A12_055

License type

Rights managed

Available size

89.2Mb (13.6Mb) / 20.0in x 17.3in / 6000 x 5196 (300dpi)

Keywords

Ornamental tapestry Late 18th century Flanders ceiling floor tapestry symmetrical decoration central rosette surrounded two floral leafy wreaths corner compositions horns filled flowers lyres intertwined acanthus leaves frame leaves rosettes Border repeats leaves Colors cream olive sand background pink green blue ornament Materials woven fabrics Dimensions height 517 cm width 460 cm large rectangular textile central circular medallion surrounded floral motifs ornate corner decorations featuring background muted brown ochre tones accents rose gold broad border lighter tan beige frames piece decorated repeated floral garlands inner narrow bands central medallion concentric floral patterns encircled wreath- design reddish tones corner contains elaborate urn- swag elements cascading flowers green set darker brown field surface variations tone worn areas underlying weave faded colors visible.