Wall tapestry from the salon of a palace in Lithuania, Persia, 1830s-1950s.

Silk and wool, 4 m x 2.05 cm, good condition.
A unique almost 200 year old tapestry called broderie made of several thousand separately cut and hand embroidered with many threads details joined together. On average it takes more than a year for one artist to make such a fabric. Hence, often in the West the so-called Persian tapestries have prices of several thousand euros and more. That is why such fabrics were most often in Polish manors and palaces for displaying sabers and breastplates on the wall. This tapestry belonged to Aleksander count Tyszkiewicz (1919-1995), son of Stanislaw, born in Landwarow near Vilna in 1888, and grandson of Aleksander, owner of Kretynga in Samogitia. Green border sewn on later to protect the fabric during mounting on the wall.