A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLIGICAL TAPESTRY After a design by Claude Audran Woven in metal-thread, wools and silks, depicting Saturn from the series Les Portières des Dieux , with Saturn holding a scythe sitting on clouds supported by small youths, before him a flaming altar and a jester flanked by two further figures, all beneath a canopy partially supported by birds and berainesque columns, surmounted by a medallion of a youth pouring water and a further fruiting canopy, lacking borders, reduced in height at the top, the lower section below the central altar re-woven, further areas of reweaving, the reverse with a loose label inscribed 'Lord Iveagh K.P.' and with a further label inscribed in black ink 'NO4. Gobelins Tapestry 'Saturne' Size 6ft 5in. x 9ft 3½ in. Bought Paris January 1962.' 110 in. x 77½ in. (280 cm. x 197 cm.)
A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLIGICAL TAPESTRY After a design by Claude Audran Woven in metal-thread, wools and silks, depicting Saturn from the series Les Portières des Dieux , with Saturn holding a scythe sitting on clouds supported by small youths, before him a flaming altar and a jester flanked by two further figures, all beneath a canopy partially supported by birds and berainesque columns, surmounted by a medallion of a youth pouring water and a further fruiting canopy, lacking borders, reduced in height at the top, the lower section below the central altar re-woven, further areas of reweaving, the reverse with a loose label inscribed 'Lord Iveagh K.P.' and with a further label inscribed in black ink 'NO4. Gobelins Tapestry 'Saturne' Size 6ft 5in. x 9ft 3½ in. Bought Paris January 1962.' 110 in. x 77½ in. (280 cm. x 197 cm.)
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