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LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
Late 17th early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Paying Tribute from The History of Alexander, depicting a man handing over a crown and sceptre to Alexander standing before him with a throne behind Alexander with various further attendants surrounding the scene and the background with a view of a bridge and a river, within a florally swagged border with putti and nymphs to each side and cartouches to the top and the bottom and with later outer slip to top and bottom, outer slip lacking to each side and the tapestry cut along top and bottom, reweaving and patching, areas heightened in paint
9 ft. 9 in. x 14 ft. (297 cm. x 426 cm.), excluding the later outer slip
Late 17th early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Paying Tribute from The History of Alexander, depicting a man handing over a crown and sceptre to Alexander standing before him with a throne behind Alexander with various further attendants surrounding the scene and the background with a view of a bridge and a river, within a florally swagged border with putti and nymphs to each side and cartouches to the top and the bottom and with later outer slip to top and bottom, outer slip lacking to each side and the tapestry cut along top and bottom, reweaving and patching, areas heightened in paint
9 ft. 9 in. x 14 ft. (297 cm. x 426 cm.), excluding the later outer slip
Provenance
Probably commissioned for Schloss Schlobitten, East Prussia.
Thence by descent.
Thence by descent.
Literature
C. Grommelt and C. von Mertens, Das Dohnasche Schloss Schlobitten in Ostpreussen, Stuttgart, 1962, pp. 264-265.
D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 161.
D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 161.