Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . and 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 Manufactory, andan ordinance of 1732 provided that their tapestries should be dis
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . and 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 Manufactory, andan ordinance of 1732 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. D AUBUSSON, PICON(Royal Manufactory of Aubusson, Picon). Nor need we be sur-prised 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.
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