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THE PROPERTY OF THE TRUSTEES OF LORD GRETTON
(LOTS 206-208)
Lots 207 and 208 from this property form part of a series depicting Ovid's Metamorphoses or Mythologies. The series was first woven in the last years of the Mortlake manufactory after it passed into private hands and before its dissolution in 1703. It was, however, also woven in the private ateliers that were established in Soho after 1685.
AN ENGLISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
MID-17TH CENTURY, MORTLAKE OR SOHO
Details
AN ENGLISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
MID-17TH CENTURY, MORTLAKE OR SOHO
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from the series entitled Mythologies or Ovid's Metamorphoses, centred by Ceres pouring water onto a young faun, with a peasant to her right, within a bead-and-reel inner frame and a foliate border, the foliate border reduced in size to the sides, areas of restoration and reweaving
8 ft. 9 in. x 15 ft. 7½ in. (267 cm. x 475.5 cm.)
MID-17TH CENTURY, MORTLAKE OR SOHO
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from the series entitled Mythologies or Ovid's Metamorphoses, centred by Ceres pouring water onto a young faun, with a peasant to her right, within a bead-and-reel inner frame and a foliate border, the foliate border reduced in size to the sides, areas of restoration and reweaving
8 ft. 9 in. x 15 ft. 7½ in. (267 cm. x 475.5 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Bt., sold Christie's, London, 27 March 1958, lot 156 [as part of a set of five].
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