1850s Antique Aubusson Floral Lumbar Pillow in Olive Gold Design

Details

Description

This beautiful antique lumbar pillow is fashioned from a historic French Aubusson-style tapestry fragment featuring an expressive arrangement of colorful … Read more This beautiful antique lumbar pillow is fashioned from a historic French Aubusson-style tapestry fragment featuring an expressive arrangement of colorful flowers against a warm, beautifully aged olive-gold ground. The elongated composition highlights large red and pink blossoms surrounded by smaller lavender flowers, delicate stems, and scattered leaves, creating a romantic botanical design with wonderful decorative presence.

The tapestry has an especially rich antique palette. The background combines olive gold, mustard, camel, tobacco brown, and muted ochre, while the flowers introduce deep crimson red, burgundy, raspberry, dusty pink, rose, lavender, pale pink, and touches of cream. Leaves and stems appear in muted teal, dark green, sage, olive, brown, and pale yellow-green. The contrast between the saturated floral colors and subdued golden ground gives the textile an elegant, painterly appearance.

Visible age and wear contribute considerably to the character of the piece. The woven surface shows fading, thinning, scattered small losses, exposed foundation, worn fibers, irregularities, and evidence of old repairs and restoration. These characteristics are consistent with an antique textile and create the beautifully timeworn patina that distinguishes genuine historic tapestry fragments. Its long rectangular proportions make it particularly attractive as a lumbar accent on a sofa, bed, bench, or antique settee. See less