A RECTANGULAR WOOL, LINEN AND GOLD THREAD TAPESTRY

PROBABLY SWISS, 1634

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A RECTANGULAR WOOL, LINEN AND GOLD THREAD TAPESTRY
PROBABLY SWISS, 1634
Depicting in the centre the Virgin and Child bestowing rosaries on Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena flanked by two further scenes depicting the Deposition and the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, with Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalen, all set in a landscape inhabited by numerous fruit trees, flowers and wild animals; dated in the lower right corner 1634; with a coat of arms in each of the two lower corners.
Reduced along the upper edge; minor damages.
36.7/8 x 107½ in. (93.7 x 273 cm.)

拍品專文

A fragmentary tapestry, almost certainly emanating from the same workshop and depicting the identical central scene was sold in these Rooms 24 April 1994, lot 47. On both, the Virgin is seen presenting rosaries to the two principal Dominican saints, Dominic and Catherine of Siena. The former has a dog at his feet in reference to the joking description of the Dominicans as Hounds of the Lord (Domini canes) and Saint Catherine holds the cross as a symbol of her stigmata. The pelican in its piety symbolises Christ's sacrifice at the cross.