Lot 112: w - `LE COMBAT DES ANIMAUX', 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

w - `LE COMBAT DES ANIMAUX', 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

462cm. high, 380cm. wide; 15ft. 2in., 12ft. 5in.

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 1/6