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'Spring', A Louis XV classical tapestry, Aubusson, workshop of Michel Vergne, from the series The Four Seasons, early 18th century
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UK: Greenford Park
Lots marked W will be sent to Greenford Park Fine Art Storage Facility immediately after the auction.
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2,000 — 3,000
GBP
LOT SOLD. 1,875 GBP
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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

'Spring', A Louis XV classical tapestry, Aubusson, workshop of Michel Vergne, from the series The Four Seasons, early 18th century
Estimate
UK: Greenford Park
Lots marked W will be sent to Greenford Park Fine Art Storage Facility immediately after the auction.
Dagger
Normal VAT rules apply and the standard rate of VAT will be charged on both hammer price and premium. In France the reduced rate is applied where the item is defined as a book for VAT purposes. In Australia GST is charged at the standard rate on both hammer price and premium.
2,000 — 3,000
GBP
LOT SOLD. 1,875 GBP
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'Spring', A Louis XV classical tapestry, Aubusson, workshop of Michel Vergne, from the series The Four Seasons, early 18th century
woven with the Goddess Flora/Venus symbolising Spring, seated on chariot pulled by floral garlands by winged children/cupids, lacking border, with later banded narrow selvedges; reduced in width, with narrow strip of reweaving up the far right edge,
Mounted on stretcher: approximately 194cm. high, 236cm. wide; 6ft. 4in., 7ft. 9in.
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Catalogue Note

For a set of the Four Seasons represented by the appropriate divinities of Flora/Venus for Spring, Ceres for Summer, Bacchus for Autumn, and Vulcan for Winter (Collection du Conseil National de Monaco), see D & P. Chevalier, and P.F Bertrand, Les Tapisseries d’Aubusson et de Felletin, 1988, pp.75-77. The panel of Autumn is signed Michel Vergne, MRD (Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson). This set has different narrow gold and yellow border types. The comparable panel of Spring, is wider and the composition includes three further female figures following the chariot, with exuberant flowering plants extending across the foreground, and with further buildings in the background. 

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Of Royal and Noble Descent

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