NETEHERLANDISH, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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TWO DAMASK LINEN HUNTING NAPKINS
NETEHERLANDISH, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Each woven with scrolling foliage and flowers within a broad border woven with game and huntsmen, outer checquerband stripe
115 cm. x 90 cm.
And a damask linen napkin, Courtrai, circa 1634, the field woven with pikemen and musketeers, boar, stags and a variety of birds and other game, a stylised castle below, the edge of one side with openworked initials PYE above embroidered date 1634 - 90 cm. x 71 cm. (3)

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Lot Essay

There are several design elements in the hunting napkin with pikemen and musketeers which are often found on hunting napkins made in Courtrai in the first half of the 17th century. For comparison see, A.G. Pauwels DAMAST, Courtrai, 1986, No's 32, 34, and 35, pp.116-143.

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