Tapestry in wool and silk, known as "aux aristoloches",... Lot 73

Tapestry in wool and silk, known as "aux aristoloches", decorated with birds (peacock, duck, eagle parrot, jay...) and animals on a green background with cabbage leaves.) and animals on a green background with cabbage leaves; background with houses and hills; coat of arms in the upper part on a cartouche, azure with a chevron of gold accompanied in point by an ermine spot of silver, on a chief of the same, charged with three shamrocks of vert, mantled helmet of the Grenoble family Bouvier-Reynaud Borders decorated with flowers, fruits and feminine allegories under arcatures Oudenaarde or Enghien, early 17th century Height: 278 cm - Length: 315 cm (some restorations and pieces, reduced in height, lined) The Bouvier-Reynaud family was ennobled in 1610, in the person of François Reynaud, a famous lawyer at the parliament, who took the name of Bouvier following his marriage to Dauphine Bouvier, of Fontaine near Grenoble (fig.). Work consulted: G. de Rivoire de La Bâtie, Armorial de Dauphiné, Lyon, 1867, p103.