The idiosyncratic nature of the design and weaving of the present tapestry points to a non-Flemish origin. The unusual border with the flower-festoons and the groups of three vases in a row has been identified as English by H. C. Marillier, in English Tapestries of the 18th Century, London, 1930, pg. 109-110. A reduced version of this tapestry sharing the lover's knot border with delft-ware drinking vessels was formerly at Drayton House, Northamptonshire. In addition, the unusual treatment of the cottage and the rather stiff portrayal of the figures appears on other known English tapestries (Marillier, op.cit. pl. 24b, 25a).

The popular depictions of rustic genre scenes after designs by David Teniers II were reproduced on French and Flemish looms throughout the 18th century until the death of Jacques van der Borcht in 1794, when the last tapestry atelier in the Netherlands closed. (See A. Bennett, Five Centuries of Tapestries from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1992, p. 224).

The Chateau de Bourbon-Busset was built at the end of the 13th century by the de Vichy family in Auvergne, near Vichy. In 1498, the chateau passed by the marriage of the Comte de Bourbon-Busset, a branch of the Bourbon family. The house remains in the possession of the family to the present day.