History of the Chinese Emperor III French Wall Tapestry 80-99 Inches Tall A lovely vintage style tapestry

A lovely vintage style tapestry

Proud and strong buffalo are surrounded by rustic images and a tree bark border

smokey greens and blues

it is capped off with a beautiful ruby chenille

These tapestries depict life in the countryside

History of the Chinese Emperor III French Wall Tapestry 80-99 Inches Tall A lovely vintage style tapestryThe harvesting of pineapples. From a set of ten tapestries called The History of the Chinese Emperor commissioned by Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, son of King Louis XIV, to the Beauvais Manufacture. At the end of the 17th century, the Jesuite missionaries were returning from China with tales and knowledge that were to influence the royal courts of Europe. These tapestries, very exotic for the time, were initially made for the Rambouillet castle.