Large-leaf verdure (feuille de choux) with creatures. unknown c. 1550-1600 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'9" x W 10'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. received from Mrs. Rie 12/14/1937; returned 2/2/1938. Landscape with variety of birds, wyvern, griffin, unicorn, horse, lioness, stag & goat amongst large cabbage leaves, flowering plants & trees with town surrounded by water in background; coat-of-arms (cut off at top) held by 2 lions in center of upper section Fragment of tapestry (Cavallo). Borders missing; the center o
Large-leaf verdure (feuille de choux) with creatures. unknown c. 1550-1600 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'9" x W 10'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. received from Mrs. Rie 12/14/1937; returned 2/2/1938. Landscape with variety of birds, wyvern, griffin, unicorn, horse, lioness, stag & goat amongst large cabbage leaves, flowering plants & trees with town surrounded by water in background; coat-of-arms (cut off at top) held by 2 lions in center of upper section Fragment of tapestry (Cavallo). Borders missing; the center of the upper section of the field misses part of a coat-of-arms, which started in the field & extended to the original border, now missing (Soustelle). Chevalier illustrates a detail of a stylistically similar tapestry, also known as a type called Verdures à feuilles d'aristoloche or Verdures à feuilles de choux, made in the Marche region workshops around the same date, (Soustelle). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 19072 Chevalier Aubusson (1988), 26 Related Works: Stylistically similar tapestry: "Aristoloche" Anglards-de Salers (Cantal), Château de la Trémolière (Chevalier, p. 26)
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