MID-16TH CENTURY, ORIGINALLY PART OF A LARGER TAPESTRY

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A FLEMISH GAME PARK TAPESTRY
MID-16TH CENTURY, ORIGINALLY PART OF A LARGER TAPESTRY
Depicting two cranes in a river attacked by a dog, with a serpent and lion attacking a further beast, with courtly hunters, a wooded landscape with a palace in the distance, with later green guard border, reduced in size, minor reweaving and patching
96 in. high x 114 in. wide (244 cm. x 290 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 May 1997, lot 207.

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Lot Essay

The falconry subject of this tapestry is unusual for 16th Century game park motifs as most Flemish tapestries of this nature concentrated on hunts of land game. A game park tapestry depicting a dog in a nearly identical pose as the dog in the lower right corner of this tapestry was offered from Houghton by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Christie's, London, 8 December 1994, lot 70.

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