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PROBABLY BRUSSELS, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
PROBABLY BRUSSELS, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting 'Jealousy making a bed', with two women and a bearded man lining a bed with a net, in a palatial setting flanked by classical columns, within a bead-and-reel and scrolling foliate border and a blue outer slip, with unidentified weaver's mark 'CA', restoration and reweaving, borders with extensive replacements
6 ft. 8 in. x 8 ft. 5 in. (203 cm. x 255 cm.)
PROBABLY BRUSSELS, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting 'Jealousy making a bed', with two women and a bearded man lining a bed with a net, in a palatial setting flanked by classical columns, within a bead-and-reel and scrolling foliate border and a blue outer slip, with unidentified weaver's mark 'CA', restoration and reweaving, borders with extensive replacements
6 ft. 8 in. x 8 ft. 5 in. (203 cm. x 255 cm.)
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