AN AUBUSSON ARMORIAL TAPESTRY

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN AUBUSSON ARMORIAL TAPESTRY
Early 19th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting an armorial device of the Vincent family, with a shield surmounted by a coronet and a knight's armour, flanked by two rearing lions and hung with two chains of orders, on a dark olive background and surrounded by an oak-leaf rim, within a blue outer slip, minor reweaving
117½ in. x 73 in. (298 cm. x 185 cm.)

來源

The Vincent family.

拍品專文

The arms on this tapestry are those of the Vincent family, who were ennobled by Henri, Duke of Lorraine, in 1615. The orders hung around the main arms are those of Leopold of Austria, founded in 1808, the military order of Maria-Theresa, created in 1758, and a further order for military expoits created in the first third of the 19th Century.