Lot 173
173
A Flemish feuilles de choux hunting tapestry panel, woven in wools and silks with two groups of hunters bearing swords and spears, some on horseback, to the right a boar is speared by a hunter on horseback and surrounded by footmen and dogs, to the left further hunters corner a stag, the ground woven with lush foliage, with pomegranates, grapes and further fruit and flowers and small birds perched amidst the leaves--79 x 21.5in. (201 x 52cm), 16th century, reduced from a larger panel, shaped, some wear
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A Flemish feuilles de choux hunting tapestry panel, woven in wools and silks with two groups of hunters bearing swords and spears, some on horseback, to the right a boar is speared by a hunter on horseback and surrounded by footmen and dogs, to the left further hunters corner a stag, the ground woven with lush foliage, with pomegranates, grapes and further fruit and flowers and small birds perched amidst the leaves--79 x 21.5in. (201 x 52cm), 16th century, reduced from a larger panel, shaped, some wear

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A Flemish feuilles de choux hunting tapestry panel, woven in wools and silks with two groups of hunters bearing swords and spears, some on horseback, to the right a boar is speared by a hunter on horseback and surrounded by footmen and dogs, to the left further hunters corner a stag, the ground woven with lush foliage, with pomegranates, grapes and further fruit and flowers and small birds perched amidst the leaves--79 x 21.5in. (201 x 52cm), 16th century, reduced from a larger panel, shaped, some wear
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Lot Essay

A similar panel was offered as lot 309 in The Mayorcas Collection, Christie's London, 12th February 1999

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