THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
LATE 16TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
Late 16th Century
Woven in wools, depicting various hunters, some on horseback, and their dogs attacking a bear, with two maidens to the right and a fox and cranes to the left, within a wooded park landscape, the borders with various figures, and vases of flowers, within a later blue outer slip, the vase at the centre of the top associated, extensive reweaving and patching, the blue slip lacking at the top
131 in. x 153 in. (333 cm. x 386 cm.)
Late 16th Century
Woven in wools, depicting various hunters, some on horseback, and their dogs attacking a bear, with two maidens to the right and a fox and cranes to the left, within a wooded park landscape, the borders with various figures, and vases of flowers, within a later blue outer slip, the vase at the centre of the top associated, extensive reweaving and patching, the blue slip lacking at the top
131 in. x 153 in. (333 cm. x 386 cm.)