Savonnerie carpet with flower and acanthus pattern, Savonnerie carpet with flower and acanthus pattern. On a blue-black background is a two-sided symmetrical system of acanthus vines with flowers in blue, white, yellow, pale pink and green. A thick tuft of flowers in the heart is surrounded by a thick flower wreath, which is wrapped in hanging bows in four places. A pair of horn-shaped curved acanthus leaf gilts hangs on the longitudinal axis, on the longitudinal axis hangs a bell-shaped shell (?), from which emerge two pairs of pivoted acanthus vines set with flowers, ending in volute and crowned on the axis by a vase with imperial crown. The midfield is framed by a narrow zigzag band with outwardly depending in turn short and long campanes with tassels of blue. The edge, again on blue-black ground, has rolling cartouches on the corners that are slanted and have slits, on the middle of the long sides is an oval medallion surrounded with split scrollwork, while in the middle there are low baskets of flowers. Outer hem of oak leaf garland inside zigzag tables., Manufacture de la Savonnerie (attributed to), Paris, c. 1650, wool, l 655 cm × w 410 cm

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