MID-16TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
Mid-16th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting in the centre a lion and 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 two cranes by a pond, two lizards and two parrots, the border with a trellised and floral band and with playing putti, the sides and lower border with maidens holding cornucopiae and various other implements, the top centred by a strapwork cartouche flanked by two putti, all within a border of scrolling panels and masks in medallions, and within a later brown outer slip, cut and reattached to the right hand border, minor areas of reweaving and patching
112½ in. x 153½ in. (286 cm. x 436 cm.)

Lot Essay

A tapestry probably from the same set as this lot, with nearly identical borders and depicting a bull hunt in a wooded landscape, from the collection of Sir John Ramsden, Bt., was offered in these Rooms, 23 May 1932, lot 116.

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