Arabesque with bust. Morris, Joshua (British, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] Clermont, Andien de (French, 1730-1756) (author of design, attr.) [painter] c. 1730-1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'10" x W 17'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: English Weaving Center: London Ownership History: Lionel Harris Coll. (Spanish Art Gallery), London. French & Co. purchased from Mr. Vernay, 5/21/1918. French & Co. sold to Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice New York, 7/1/1957. Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10/23/1965, lot 344. Purchased by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11/1

Arabesque with bust. Morris, Joshua (British, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] Clermont, Andien de (French, 1730-1756) (author of design, attr.) [painter] c. 1730-1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'10" x W 17'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: English Weaving Center: London Ownership History: Lionel Harris Coll. (Spanish Art Gallery), London. French & Co. purchased from Mr. Vernay, 5/21/1918. French & Co. sold to Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice New York, 7/1/1957. Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10/23/1965, lot 344. Purchased by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11/10/1965. United States, Massachusetts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, accno. 2 vases of flowers on pedestals with baskets of flowers & birds (parrot, L; falcon or eagle, R) beneath flank central female bust, swags of flowers & exotic birds (BRD) floral swags with palmette-shells in corners; stylized rosettes within cartouches in center of each side French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 7318-a [also lists: 10438] French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 14185 Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan (1985), 726-729, no. 128, illus. Cavallo, Boston tapestries (1967), 166-170, plates 53, 53a Marillier, English Tapestries (1930), 8-10, plate 42 Related Works: Similar tapestries: GCPA 0181827, 0184122; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Ref. , "Arabesques" (GCPA 0181828)

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