MID-16TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
Mid-16th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a park landscape with two central turkeys surrounded by several hunters, two holding a small bird cage and one catching a bird, three are throwing a net over an animal and one shooting into the branches of a tree, in the distance with a hilly landscape with scattered buildings, within a border with fruiting and flowering swags suspending from a canopy and with parrots within medallions, the outer slip with a foliate guilloche-band, the main field reduced in width, minor reweaving and patching
77½ in. x 85 in. (197 cm. x 216 cm.)
Mid-16th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a park landscape with two central turkeys surrounded by several hunters, two holding a small bird cage and one catching a bird, three are throwing a net over an animal and one shooting into the branches of a tree, in the distance with a hilly landscape with scattered buildings, within a border with fruiting and flowering swags suspending from a canopy and with parrots within medallions, the outer slip with a foliate guilloche-band, the main field reduced in width, minor reweaving and patching
77½ in. x 85 in. (197 cm. x 216 cm.)