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A SWISS LATE GOTHIC BIBLICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
CIRCA 15TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY STRASBOURG OR BERN
Depicting The Sacrifice of Isaac with the angel appearing to stay Abraham's hand from striking the kneeling bound Isaac about to be burned within porticos and a landscape with a ram, woolly sheep and camels drinking at a well with Rachel bearing water within a later border and woven with characteric banners with the inscriptions 'Abraha. hat. opfter. sine. fur. Hal' sic - and 'Abrahams. Furcht. ward. unverwuestlic' sic -(minor areas of repair)-5ft. 3in. x 34in. (1m. 60cm. x 87.5cm.)
This lot has great similarities with the Adelphus Legend tapestries woven at Strasbourg circa 1507-1510 especially in the treatment of the figures and sinuous banners woven with Gothic textura (see A. Rapp Buri and M. Stucky-Schürer, Zahm und wild, 1990, pp. 387-399) and with a fragment woven at Strasbourg circa 1510-20 depicting the meeting of Maria and Elisabeth (see A. Rapp Buri and M. Stucky-Schürer, op.cit., pp. 408-409). This tapestry also shares similarities with the 'Berner Minneteppich' illustrated in M. Stettler and P. Nizon, Bildteppiche und Antependien im Historischen Museum Bern, 1966, p. 46.
CIRCA 15TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY STRASBOURG OR BERN
Depicting The Sacrifice of Isaac with the angel appearing to stay Abraham's hand from striking the kneeling bound Isaac about to be burned within porticos and a landscape with a ram, woolly sheep and camels drinking at a well with Rachel bearing water within a later border and woven with characteric banners with the inscriptions 'Abraha. hat. opfter. sine. fur. Hal' sic - and 'Abrahams. Furcht. ward. unverwuestlic' sic -(minor areas of repair)-5ft. 3in. x 34in. (1m. 60cm. x 87.5cm.)
This lot has great similarities with the Adelphus Legend tapestries woven at Strasbourg circa 1507-1510 especially in the treatment of the figures and sinuous banners woven with Gothic textura (see A. Rapp Buri and M. Stucky-Schürer, Zahm und wild, 1990, pp. 387-399) and with a fragment woven at Strasbourg circa 1510-20 depicting the meeting of Maria and Elisabeth (see A. Rapp Buri and M. Stucky-Schürer, op.cit., pp. 408-409). This tapestry also shares similarities with the 'Berner Minneteppich' illustrated in M. Stettler and P. Nizon, Bildteppiche und Antependien im Historischen Museum Bern, 1966, p. 46.