South American

French Needlepoint

An irregularly cut fragment shows a sage-green ground filled with a dense scrolling arrangement of leafy vines, acanthus-like leaves, and large stylized blossoms rendered in shades of dusty rose, deep burgundy, and blush pink. A prominent spiky central flower anchors the composition, surrounded by smaller rosettes and curling tendrils that sweep outward toward the ragged, undefined edges, with no border remaining to frame the design.

French Needlepoint

The field is worked in fine pale seafoam-green pinstripes alternating with a soft ivory ground scattered with small orange dots, and centers on a single stylized eight-petaled flower in peach and cream tones with a small red and dark accent core. The border is narrow and pale, filled with a repeating chevron-and-bar motif in tan and gray, framed by a slim dark outline, with small cornered devices at each corner. The overall palette stays muted throughout, with the lone floral medallion offset noticeably below the true center of the field.

French Needle Point

A rounded-cornered field in deep chestnut brown is filled with a dense, mirrored arrangement of large tan scrolling leaves and stylized blossoms in rose pink, coral, ivory, sage and forest green, with small dark plum and black accents scattered throughout. A narrow ivory border carries a repeating meander in muted green and rust, framed on the outer edge by a twisted cord in gold and brown tones.

Delft Pastoral Tapestry

A woven landscape scene set within a painted stone archway, depicting tall trees in shades of green and ochre beside a winding river where two figures stand near the bank and long-necked waterbirds swim below. The border, framed as an architectural surround, carries garlands of fruit and flowers in muted gold, rose, and blue tones, with an oval cartouche of deep blue centered at top and bottom flanked by small grotesque figures in the upper corners.

Aubusson tapestry

A pictorial field depicts a wooded riverside scene with a swagged rose-and-brown drapery slung between overhanging boughs, a squirrel perched among foliage at lower left, and a distant town of towers and rooftops across a pale blue waterway under a hazy sky. A bird glides in flight at upper right, and a continuous border of scrolling acanthus leaves and small flowers in ochre, olive, and blue frames the composition on all sides.

Large Leaf Tapestry

The field is filled edge to edge with an oversized leafy scroll in tones of slate and sage blue, set against a dark ground, with a small perched bird and a second bird with tawny plumage tucked among the foliage at lower right. To the left a stylized fruiting tree rises from a plinth carved with three small human heads in profile, its rounded fruit rendered in ochre and pale gold. A plain narrow border in dusty blue with a thin mustard-yellow inner line frames the composition on all sides.

Brussels

The field depicts a wooded landscape scene with several draped figures gathered near a stone ledge beside water, rendered in blues, ochres, russet, and cream against a pale sky. A large tree with dense dark-blue foliage dominates the upper field, its trunk and bare branches framing the group below, while smaller trees and a distant shoreline recede into the background.

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