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Two arm chair covers
Date:
ca. 18th century
Location:
Not on display
Century:
Media:
Tapestry
Dimensions:
74.5 x 82 cm (29 5/16 x 32 5/16 in.)
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
Europe
Accession Number:
X1989.197.1-2
Acquisition Date:
1901-01-01
Credit Line:
Museum collection
Two armchair seat covers(do not match). One with large floral motifs around a central medallion with a rooster, two swans below. The other with a scrolling background and border, two caryatids supporting a central medallion possibly depicting a fable(shipwrecked man, animal?). The other medallion shows a cockerel. These appear to be part of the Russell group of chair covers. See 1962.50.2, 1962.50.2a, 1962.51.2b etc.
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
Charles of Amboise, Grandmaster and Admiral of France, 1512 (18th–19th century)