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Mid-19th Century Antique Handwoven Aubusson Tapestry

Creator: Aubusson
Offered by: Boccara Gallery

Description
Antique Aubusson tapestry, mid-19th century
Material: wool
Dimensions: 500 x 400 cm / 196,8 x 157,4 in

We have an important collection of Aubusson rugs from the 18th-20th centuries. The style developed in Aubusson is recognized today as one of the most influential of the European rug and tapestries History.

Workshops to produce Aubusson flat-woven rugs were established under the royal warrant in 1743 to manufacture pile carpets primarily for the nobility.

Many weavers who settled in France were Huguenots who had fled Spain during the Inquisition in the early sixteenth century. By issuing the edict of Nantes, Henry IV granted all non-Catholics freedom of worship, thereby protecting the carpet weavers in Aubusson. Aubusson weavers became the finest craftsmen in the world. Louis XIV’s influential Prime Minister Colbert established the long and hard apprenticeship necessary to obtain the title “Master of Tapestry”. Even today, the center in Aubusson, under control of the French Ministry of Arts, is busily producing carpets and rugs of the most exquisite quality.

Aubusson rugs and carpets are considered to be among the finest examples of carpet production undertaken in Europe over the past 350 years.

More Information

Documentation:	Certificate of Authenticity
Origin:	France
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	wool
Condition:	Good. excellent condition
Creation Date:	c.1850
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Incollect Reference #:	312750

Dimensions

W.	157 in;	H.	197 in;
W.	398.78 cm;	H.	500.38 cm;

Message from Seller:

The Boccara Fine Art department presents paintings, photography and special attention is given to sculpture, which is one of the gallery owner’s greatest passions. Following one of the guidelines developed by Didier Marien, not only worldwide famous artists such as Wang Keping, André Lanskoy, Léon Zack, Dominique Pollès, Serge Charchoune, Clement Rosenthal, Anton Smith but also emerging artists like Simone Pheuplin, Émile Gilioli and Laurence Bonnel are represented by the gallery.