Braquenie et Cie Tapestry of Cherry Pickers

Wool and silk, second half 19th century, depicting an 18th century man on a ladder handing cherries down to a pair of women in a rural verdant landscape with a child feeding cherries to chickens, brown border, unsigned, later hanging sleeve sewn to back upper edge.

48.5 x 77.5 in.

Fragile, with holes and brittleness; fading and discoloration; fraying to lower corners and edges; surface dust.