PROBABLY AUDENARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
PROBABLY AUDENARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting a stag hunt, with courtly figures and hunters with their hounds in a wooded landscape with a mounted stag-hunt beyond, in the distance mountains, lakes, and a village, within an elaborate arcaded border with allegorical figures and flower-filled vases, top and bottom borders centred by oval landscape cartouches, the sand-coloured slip with weaver's mark 'MP..(?)', areas of restoration and reweaving
11 ft. x 14 ft. 8 in (335 cm. x 445 cm.)

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Lot Essay

A very similar game-park tapestry depicting a wolf hunt and with identical borders bearing a differing Audenarde town mark is illustrated in I. de Meter, M. Vanwelden, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIe siècle, Tilt, 1999, p. 144.

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