Lot n° 162
Estimation :
400 - 600
EUR
Important yardage in replica of the hanging... - Lot 162 - Normandy Auction
Important yardage in replica of the hanging of the Four Parts of the World, provided by the merchant Michel to the Garde-meuble in 1784, reweaving of the manufacture Grand Frères in Lyon, first half of the XIXth century, lampas edged with green satin background, silver decoration with allegories of four continents: Africa is represented by a lion hunt, Minerva helmeted holding an arrow and a shield embodies Europe; two Indians facing each other seated on a rock symbolize America, an oriental dignitary riding a camel and sheltered by a parasol evokes the East.
Commissioned in blue and silver colors for the seats of the Grand Cabinet of Marie-Antoinette at the Château de Rambouillet in 1784, this lampas was also placed for a cabinet of the king at Compiègne in 1785 and 1786 and reweaved under the First Empire for the Salon des Glaces of Madame Mère at Trianon. It is then regularly rewoven in the nineteenth century by Grand Frères and Tassinari and Chatel after the original. It currently adorns the Salon des Ambassadeurs at the Elysée Palace and the Hall of Mirrors at the Grand Trianon.
Two panels of 270 x 213 cm approximately forming a useful yardage of 22 m woven in 0.54 cm wide, (stain on one of the panels).
Two mantling mounted later, 54 x 434 cm and 54 x 315 cm.
A document composed of pieces mounted on canvas (stains), probably the original document used for the reweaving, 69 x 115 cm.
Bibliography. :
- Soieries de Lyon, Commandes royales au XVIIIe siècle (1730-1800), Musée historique des tissus, 1988, cat.29
- E. Dumonthier, Etoffes et tapisseries d'Ameublement des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, inv.1657, pl. 43, s.d
- J.P Planchon, Tassinari&Chatel, La soie au fil du temps, Monelle Hayot, Paris, 2011; p28 and 385.
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