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Lot 1292
A French Gobelins tapestry depicting Lot's Flight from Sodom
by E. Hocheid, first quarter 20th century
22 May 2012, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$25,000 inc. premium

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A French Gobelins tapestry depicting Lot's Flight from Sodom
by E. Hocheid, first quarter 20th century

Inscribed and dated lower left E. HOCHEID / TAP AUX GOBELINS / 1912.
height 70 1/2in (179cm); width 104 1/2in (266cm)

Footnotes

A pair of tapestries in the Bordeaux City Hall depicting the Arms of Bordeaux and the First Civil Marriage in France in 1792 were woven by Hocheid at Gobelins between 1899 and 1903, and "deserve the highest praise for their excellence of weave and model." (in: George Leland Hunter, Tapestries; Their Origin, History and Renaissance, John Lane Company, 1912, pl. 183.

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