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MID-16TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
MID-16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a lion and a lioness surrounded by hunters on foot and on horseback, within an Arcadian park landscape with exotic trees and a ruin in the distance, the foreground with cranes, lizards and parrots, the border with a trellised and floral band and with playing putti, the sides and lower border decorated with maidens, the top centred by a strapwork cartouche flanked by putti, all within a border of scrolling panels, and a later brown outer slip, with two full-length restored vertical cuts to right hand side of field, areas of reweaving and restoration, including areas of the light threads to the background of field and border
9 ft. 5 in. x 12 ft. 10 in. (286 cm. x 390 cm.)
MID-16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a lion and a lioness surrounded by hunters on foot and on horseback, within an Arcadian park landscape with exotic trees and a ruin in the distance, the foreground with cranes, lizards and parrots, the border with a trellised and floral band and with playing putti, the sides and lower border decorated with maidens, the top centred by a strapwork cartouche flanked by putti, all within a border of scrolling panels, and a later brown outer slip, with two full-length restored vertical cuts to right hand side of field, areas of reweaving and restoration, including areas of the light threads to the background of field and border
9 ft. 5 in. x 12 ft. 10 in. (286 cm. x 390 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, London, 26 November 1996, lot 209
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