A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY, from the Triomphes des Dieux series, after the designs by Noël Coypel woven in wools and silks, Minerva shown standing on a circular plinth underneath a domed canopy with C-scrolled edge flanked by attendants before a strapwork and jewelled background and beneath Pegasus flanked by two griffins, the border with a central C-scroll cartouche with fleur de lys surmounted by a coronet at the top and spirally turning guilloche-bands and acanthus leaves, in an orange outer slip, restorations, reduced in size, the armorial catouche possibly associated, the slip lacking at the base, minor areas of re-weaving 122½in. x 101in. (311cm. x 257cm.)
A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY, from the Triomphes des Dieux series, after the designs by Noël Coypel woven in wools and silks, Minerva shown standing on a circular plinth underneath a domed canopy with C-scrolled edge flanked by attendants before a strapwork and jewelled background and beneath Pegasus flanked by two griffins, the border with a central C-scroll cartouche with fleur de lys surmounted by a coronet at the top and spirally turning guilloche-bands and acanthus leaves, in an orange outer slip, restorations, reduced in size, the armorial catouche possibly associated, the slip lacking at the base, minor areas of re-weaving 122½in. x 101in. (311cm. x 257cm.)
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