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MEZZARO AL ALBERO VECCHIO, probably Manufacture L.
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199
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MEZZARO AL ALBERO VECCHIO, probably Manufacture L.
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,300
Voluntary lot
Description
MEZZARO AL ALBERO VECCHIO, probably Manufacture L. Testori, Genoa, Italy, second third of the 19th century, cream-coloured cotton fabric printed using a wooden block. Design featuring the Tree of Life flanked by a palm tree, standing on a flower-covered mound populated by small mammals. Border featuring a flowerbed design of roses and tulips, punctuated by flowering stems with ears of wheat, vine shoots and pears.
Mounted on a red canvas backing
(a few stains)
305 x 280 cm
Expert: Raphaël Maraval-Hutin
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
See original version (French)
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