Portuguese Tapestry?
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Edith A. Standen discusses a large mid-18th-century tapestry given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1956 by the children of Otto H. Kahn. The tapestry has a blue ground, a central hunting scene, and a border of emblematic devices, most of them found in 18th-century emblem books, set in rococo (rocaille) scrollwork. She considers a Portuguese origin, comparing the rocaille to azulejo frames and weighing known Portuguese tapestry manufactories, and concludes it remains labelled "Portuguese (?), mid-eighteenth century." Nine plates show the whole tapestry and details of the border emblems, and footnotes cite sources.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1958
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
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