. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. d with luminous grounds, possessing an excellence peculiarto themselves, but none the less admirable because unlike the productof Gobelin, Beauvais and Flemish looms. The Aubusson makers hadbeen authorised in 1665 to use the title Royal ]\Ianufactory, andan ordinance of provided that their tapestries should be di
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. d with luminous grounds, possessing an excellence peculiarto themselves, but none the less admirable because unlike the productof Gobelin, Beauvais and Flemish looms. The Aubusson makers hadbeen authorised in 1665 to use the title Royal ]\Ianufactory, andan ordinance of provided that their tapestries should be distin-guished by weaving the name of the town and the name or initials ofthe weaver into the border. Consequently we need not be surprisedto find many eighteenth century Aubusson tapestries signed in thebottom selvage in the same manner as the two Chinese tapestries afterBoucher in the Le Roy collection: M. R. DAUBUSSON, PICON(Royal Manufactory of Aubusson, Picon). Nor need we be sur-jirised at all to often find the signature wanting, as the bottom selvageof a tapestry is the part of the textile that is most apt to wear out ordisappear first. The Aubusson tapestry illustrated in Plate VII, entitled theStrife of Agamemnon and Achilles, bears the signature of Babouneix. 235. TAPESTRIES AND THEIR IMITATIONS It is one of a set of five tapestries, complete with tapestry rug andfurniture coverings, made in the last half of the eighteenth centuryto decorate the room in Greece where they hung for over a centuryuntil recently brought to New York. On account of the draperies inthe style of Louis XVI that frame the top and sides of the differentpieces, the set is commordy called the Greek drapery set. Twoother tapestries of this set, the Reception of Paris by Helen, and theDeath of Phaeton, were exhibited at the Buffalo Tapestry Exhibition,and illustrated on page of the February 1915 number of GoodFuRxiTiRE Magazine. The composition of all the panels is excellent,particularly of the A
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