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Title: Fragments of a Lower Border
Designer:
Tapestry designed 1684–86 by Jean Lemoine de Lorrain (1638–1713)
Designer:
and Claude Guy Hallé (French, Paris 1652–1736 Paris)
Designer:
and Bon Boullogne (French, Paris 1649–1717 Paris)
Workshop director:
Woven 1687-91 in the haute-lisse atelier of Jean Jans the Younger (French, 1644–1723)
Manufactory:
at Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (French, established 1662)
Date: 1687–91, with modern frame
Culture: French
Medium: Silk, wool and metal thread; modern frame carved and gilded wood.
Dimensions: a) 48-1/2 x 77 x 26-1/4 in. (123.2 x 195.6 x 66.7 cm); b) 1 ft. 9 3/4 in. x 5 ft. 11 1/2 in. (55.2 x 181.6 cm); c) 2 ft. x 6 ft. 5 in. (61 x 195.6 cm); d, e) Each 3 x 15 in. (7.6 x 38.1 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Object Number: 14.40.783a–e
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