Lot 358
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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY attributed to Peter and Franz van der Borght, woven in wools and silks, depicting a peasant family, the mother holding an infant in her arms, talking and drinking beneath a timber-framed building where, from an upstairs window, an old woman is on the point of pouring a jug of water onto them, the associated ribbon-twist and scrolling foliate border with acorns and acanthus and scallop-shell clasp angles, in a later brown slip, slightly reduced in width, restorations and areas of re-weaving, late 17th Century

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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY attributed to Peter and Franz van der Borght, woven in wools and silks, depicting a peasant family, the mother holding an infant in her arms, talking and drinking beneath a timber-framed building where, from an upstairs window, an old woman is on the point of pouring a jug of water onto them, the associated ribbon-twist and scrolling foliate border with acorns and acanthus and scallop-shell clasp angles, in a later brown slip, slightly reduced in width, restorations and areas of re-weaving, late 17th Century
Literature
H.C. Marillier Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 52, pl. 21b.

Dario Boccara, Les Belles Hennes de la Tapiserie, Milan, 1971, p. 173

Lot Essay

Winter, forming part of the Seasons Series, was first woven at Brussels in Jacob van der Borght the Older's (1676-1710) workshop, to designs by De Hondt after David Téniers and were later woven by his son Jacques and his nephew Peter (1742-63).

Amongst the recorded examples are those at Uppark, Sussex and another made up from two separate scenes, woven by P. and F. van der Borcht, sold anonymously in these Rooms, 27 March 1986, lot 192. A closely related tapestry was sold anonymously at Sotheby's, Monaco, 23-4 June 1926, lot 116

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