Lot 111: w - `L'INDIEN À CHEVAL'/LE CHEVAL POMMELE', 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

w - `L'INDIEN À CHEVAL'/LE CHEVAL POMMELE', 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

458cm. high, 344cm. wide; 15ft. 1in., 11ft. 3in.

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

the reverse with a section of old lining marked in ink with: No 158. INDIENS. 8.P.4. au, 3 au