Exceptional and very important TAPIS au point de la savonnerie de style. Wool velvet on cotton backing. Ivory field decorated with a very large central medallion with a polychrome crown of stylized flowers and foliage, surrounded by reserves inlaid with stylized breastplates bearing the coat of arms of France, with fleurs-de-lis and circled by crowns with stylized flowers and foliage. Four midnight-blue spandrels with scrolls of fine crenellated branches and stylized acanthus foliage in the form of polychrome horns of plenty. Old gold scrolled border forming a gilded wood frame. 20th century. Size: 550 x 360 cm. (Good condition)

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