THREE FRENCH AUBUSSON TAPESTRIES OF ROYAL PALACES

THREE FRENCH AUBUSSON TAPESTRIES OF ROYAL PALACES

MID-19TH CENTURY

after the famous Louis XIV Goblins series of tapestries designed by Charles Le Brun, known as 'The Months' or 'The Royal Households', finely woven with wool and silk, September with a monkey, eagle and a lnyx, with a balustrade in the foreground with marble columns, a young boy with a carpet and a page, with a gilt ewer sat on a cushion, with a procession of coaches beyond with the Chateau of Chambord, with an oval ribbon tied floral medallion with a crowned monogram, December depicts a Royal boar hunt in the park of Monceaux, two pages are lifting a Persian carpet across a balustrade, May depicts a gazelle jumping a balustrade, in the distance the Chateau of St. Germain and with Louis XIV riding along the banks of the River Seine with his wife and entourage (3)

240 x 203cm, 240 x 206cm and 245 x 350cm

Provenance

Easton Neston House, Northamptonshire

Hon. Louise Fermor-Hesketh, daughter of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, Baron Hesketh who married Sir Edmund Villiers Minshull Stockdale, 1st Baronet ( 632nd Lord Mayor of London from 1959-1960) in 1937.

Hoddington House, Basingstoke and by descent.

The Collection of the late Frederick 'Freddie' Stockdale (1947-2018) and Adele Stockdale, Eastwood Farm, East Sussex.