9 x 10 Vintage Chinese Aubusson Tapestry 79231

79231 Vintage Chinese Aubusson Tapestry, 08'07 x 09'07.

Woven in homage to the allegorical splendor of 18th-century France, this handwoven wool vintage Chinese Aubusson tapestry is a masterwork of romantic storytelling, rendered through the enduring artistry of mid-20th-century Chinese ateliers. Inspired by Ovids Metamorphoses, the scene captures the mythic courtship of Zephyrus and Flora with lyrical sensitivity. Draped in flowing robes of rose and ivory, Flora reclines in serene command as the goddess of flowers, her posture imbued with quiet power. Approaching her with an air of urgent grace is Zephyrus, the west wind embodied, clad in a crimson cloak that ripples like the breeze he commands. A slender greyhound stands alert at their feet, a timeless emblem of fidelity, bridging the mythological with the terrestrial.

The background unfurls in a sumptuous cascade of painterly detail: arboreal silhouettes swaying in unseen gusts, rolling