FRENCH TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON, CIRCA 1750 CM 228X335 Seams, needs professional wash. AUBUSSON FRENCHE TAPESTRY, CIRCA 1750, NEEDS PROFESSIONAL WASH, STRUCTURAL DETACHMENT. Vegetable with God Cupid with feathered wings sitting on a cloud with a gold-coloured dart in his hand ready to shoot. Gold is the colour of Love. The childlike appearance symbolises the lovers' immature, seeming behaviour; the nudity directs attention to the brazenness inherent in the display of passion; the wings allude to the fickleness of love states; finally, the arrows to the lover's vulnerability and the wounds caused by the pains of love.