A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY

LATE 16TH CENTURY

Details
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY
Late 16th century
Woven in wools and silks, from the history of Scipio, depicting two warriors meeting in a landscape, the border woven with vignettes of muses with attributes and classical figures in bowers, the bottom edge with weaver's mark LfB
11ft. 7in. x 8ft. 5in. (353cm. x 255cm.)
Provenance
The late Sir John Musker, Shadwell Park, Norfolk, sold Sotheby's house sale, 21 October 1992, lot 216