Lot 312
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting an episode from the Flight of Darius, the dying Darius on a canopy covered chariot, surrounded by mounted guards and soldiers, the wide border with central landscape cartouche, trophies of fruit and sculptured figures holding fruit baskets, with weaver's mark of a spear and S, minor re-weaving, early 17th Century

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A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting an episode from the Flight of Darius, the dying Darius on a canopy covered chariot, surrounded by mounted guards and soldiers, the wide border with central landscape cartouche, trophies of fruit and sculptured figures holding fruit baskets, with weaver's mark of a spear and S, minor re-weaving, early 17th Century
134 x 157½in. (340 x 400cm.)

Lot Essay

After losing the battle on the plain of Issus to Alexander the Great in 333 BC., Darius fled wounded. Alexander pursued Darius and he was finally slain by his own men. Alexander found him dying and Darius beseeched him to care for his wife and children after his death

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