A GERMAN RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY PANEL

CIRCA 1600

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A GERMAN RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY PANEL
Circa 1600
Woven in wools and metal-thread, probably depicting St. Clare of Assisi, with the female saint kneeling and holding a rosary with cross at the end, beside a pillar surmounted by a cockerel, before her with the infant Christ lying within an enclosure and behind him with the cross surmounted by a scroll inscribed 'INRI', hung with various symbols of the passion and flanked by further symbols, within foliate scrolls with flowerheads and to the base inscribed '1600', minor areas of reweaving and patching, mounted on a board
The board 19 in. (48 cm.) square

Lot Essay

St. Clare (1194-1253) was of noble parentage and was received into the Franciscan Order as a young woman against the will of her family. Her austere way of life exemplified the Franciscan ideal of poverty and dependence on alms.

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