RARE Superb Antique French Beauvais Manufactory Silk Tapestry Panel, 30"x24.5" Apres Boucher
RARE! Woven directly into the panel, lower left, you see a signature. I am having a difficult time making it out, but it is likely the artisan whose exquisitely fine silk tapestry this is. Never worked into a cushion, it has perhaps been hung under glass and frame since the back shows us that some fading has occurred. The superb and very fine weaving in this panel exceeds any we've seen. The quality and fine work suggests it is Beauvais Manufactory. Threads per inch are very high, and it is entirely worked in silk from all I am able to discern. The work is c.1700s, based on all I have on it, and years of personal experience as a collector and avid museum researcher. I believe it is my finest panel at this point in time. A French "Romantic" era theme, that also is most typical of the mid-1700s. Very slight possibility it is a salvage from a large sofa back, the outer band of dark yarns, about .5" wide, is woven apart from the main panel. A full 30" x 24.5", it is truly a museum piece, j