A FLEMISH RENAISSANCE SILK AND METALLIC-THREAD TAPESTRY PANEL

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A FLEMISH RENAISSANCE SILK AND METALLIC-THREAD TAPESTRY PANEL
LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Centrally woven with two lovers under a baldaquin flanked by figural terms (separation)-21in. x 20½in. (54cm. x 52cm.)

Lot Essay

A closely related example of a Brussels tapestry, circa 1560, depicting Vertumnus and Pomona under a grape vine arbor by Wilhelm de Pannemaker is illustrated in P. Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimono Nacional, Vol. I, Siglo XVI, Madrid, 1986, p.122.