BRUSSELS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH PERGOLA TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting two flower-filled vases within a columned pergola with vine-decorated classical columns and hunting scenes beyond, within a bead-and-reel border with fruiting floral garlands decorated to the sides with classical terms and centred to top and bottom with cabochon-filled cartouches flanked by putti and parrots, within a blue outer slip, with Brussels town mark and with weaver's marks, minor areas of restoration and reweaving, the right side of the main field far 10 in. (25 cm.)
11 ft. 7 in. x 12 ft. (352 cm x 366 cm.)

Provenance

Probably from Château d'Amenoville and the Collection of the Marquis de la Rochefoucauld.

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Lot Essay

A panel with double pergola and with nearly identical columns and vases was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 16 May 1996, lot 229, while another was sold anonymously Beaussant-Lefèvre, Paris, 24 November 1995, lot 231.

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