A LOUIS XIV ARMORIAL TAPESTRY PANEL
Lot 385 Property of a Swiss Institution (lots 383-385)

A LOUIS XIV ARMORIAL TAPESTRY PANEL

GOBELINS, LAST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

Closed2 October 2013

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A LOUIS XIV ARMORIAL TAPESTRY PANEL
GOBELINS, LAST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting the coats-of-arms of the Marquis de Louvois, flanked by rampant lions and fruiting vases, above an archtectural base flanked by acanthus scrolls, within a stylised leaf-tip border, areas of reweaving
9 ft. 3 in. x 5 ft. 8 in (282 x 173 cm.)

Supplied to Michel-Francois Le Tellier (1663-1721), Marquis de Louvois.
Allen Francis Moore, Sr., Monticello, Ill, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 11-12 February, 1948, lot 550.

Specialist note

MICHEL-FRANÇOIS LE TELLIER (1663-1721)
The son of one of the most important political figures of the first part of the reign of Louis XIV. His father Louvois (d. 1691) was the son of the influential statesman Michel le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville et de Viroflay (1603-1685), Chancellor of France from 1677.

ALLEN FRANCIS MOORE
Moore (d. 1945), was a Republican US Representative from Ilinois in Congress from 1921-1925. A banker and trustee of the University of Illinois, he moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1939.

COMPARABLE EXAMPLES
A tapestry of identical design was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 2001, lot 212.