Elément de bordures pour écrans et paravents. Pièce de section rectangulaire. L'un des bords longitudinaux présente une lisière. Velours ciselé et frisé avec des réserves pour être rebrodé en or relevé sur fond satin pourpre n°1, dessin à courant de rosaces quadrilobées, entre deux bandes de velours.

Historique :
Cette bordure fut commandée à Grand frères, en 1811, pour la Salle du Trône du Palais de Versailles. Les réserves en satin devaient être rebrodées en or relevé, mais seuls des échantillons d'essai furent réalisés. La commande n'a finalement pas été utilisée sous l'Empire : c'est seulement en 1827 que 50m. 20 de bordures ont été confiées au tapissier Laflèche pour Saint-Cloud, et à nouveau en 1845 pour ce même palais. En 1856, d'autres métrage des bordures ont été remis à l'atelier central du Château de Pau.

Fragment (two pieces sewed together). Ground: dark neutral purple 5/1 satin. Design: undulating vines and flying pheasants woven with gold (gilded skin wound on linen) thread, and pink and cream silk, weft, tied by fine pink silk warp. (The pattern weft go from selvedge to selvedge). 3/1 weft-faced twill pattern

Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warp floats

Ruban en soie, taffetas blanc broché en couleurs, blanc et vert, matelassé

Lé avec 6 médaillons "Les tourterelles " destinés à être découpés puis appliqués en broderie sur le lé de fond ; retissage effectué à Lyon par la maison Tassinari et Chatel, dans le cadre de la restauration du billard de la Reine, achevée en 1993, grâce au mécénat de Lady Michelham.

Retissage d'après le " meuble " livré par Charton en 1779 pour le cabinet intérieur de Marie-Antoinette à Versailles puis adapté aux proportions du billard de la Reine en 1783.

Vernet is best known as an accomplished history painter, but like many academic artists of his day, including his teacher François -André Vincent, he also made caricatures. Among these were numerous drawings of friends and acquaintances as well as sketches of fellow Academicians during the meetings of the Institut de France. This wonderful wsh drawing most likely depicts the Romantic composer Charles-Henri Plantade. A lightly traced inscription in graphite at the bottom left appears to read "Plantade,"and the image resembles a more serious profile-portrait of Plantade, who clearly had a prominent nose, which Vernet increased considerably in size. It is a good-natured caricature that Vernet signed with a characteristic flourish at the bottom.

Ribbon; blue silk ground with design of roses, narcissi, and jonquils brocaded with brilliant green, reddish-orange, dark red, yellow, and white; somewhat worn from being tied in several places.

Knitted silk purse, stocking stitch, with metal thread loops.
Displayed behind glass.
Acquired in Julfa, the Armenian suburb of Isphahan.
Red, purple, green, black, white, yellow and mauve silk.  A long, narrow purse with a rounded bottom, open at the top.  There seems to be 2 gold coloured metal thread loops, one at either side of the opening.  Seemingly independent of these is a silk cord which has been passed through small thread loops and which could be pulled tight to close the purse.  The cord ends with a 'pendant' of interlaced gold coloured metal thread.
The purse is decorated with a series of barrow bands along the upper part: purple, reciprocal yellow and black trefoils, an indistinct green pattern on a purple ground, the trefoils again and then a series of vertical stripes on a white ground.  There is a narrow and two wider stripes visible: the narrow contains a meander and the wider contain 2 stylized plants with a pair of birds perched on their top.  The colours are used in bands: purple, green, red, mauve, purple etc.. Towards the rounded bottom there is a repeat of the trefoil band either side of a purple band with joining X- and S-motifs in white.
There seem to be narrow bands going down to the bottom in which a band with a star motif is in between bands of red, green and purple.

Three female and four men figures, and a dog in the foreground in a wooded setting. In the center right a sitted woman sings from a music book while another woman behind her plays an instrument. Two other standing men at her right play music. In the center left, a woman is holding a jar on her head while looking at a standing man with a dog. In the background, a fountain and a road. The border is composed of a continuous floral motif.

Page of the illustrated manuscript "The  Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial   Paraphernalia of the Present Dynasty."

1601 / 1625

1601 / 1625