Lot 113: w - `LE ROI PORTÉ PAR DEUX MAURES' , A GOBELINS TAPESTRY, WOVEN BETWEEN 1692-1740, FROM THE SERIES LES ANCIENNES INDES, AFTER CARTOONS BY ALEXANDRE-FRANCOIS DESPORTES, BASED ON PAINTINGS BY ALBERT VAN DER EECKHOUT AND FRANS POST COMMISSIONED BY

w - `LE ROI PORTÉ PAR DEUX MAURES' , A GOBELINS TAPESTRY, WOVEN BETWEEN 1692-1740, FROM THE SERIES LES ANCIENNES INDES, AFTER CARTOONS BY ALEXANDRE-FRANCOIS DESPORTES, BASED ON PAINTINGS BY ALBERT VAN DER EECKHOUT AND FRANS POST COMMISSIONED BY PRINCE MAURICE OF NASSAU AND GIVEN TO LOUIS XIV IN 1679

467cm. high, 325cm. wide; 15ft. 4in., 10ft. 8in.

woven basse lisse, within the `première' four-sided gold and red acanthus borders on a blue ground, with narrow inner husk and outer red and gold banded borders, with blue outer selvedge