A FLEMISH BAROQUE GROTESQUE TAPESTRY

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A FLEMISH BAROQUE GROTESQUE TAPESTRY
LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRUGGES

Centrally woven with a medallion enclosing a battle scene suspended by male and female figures and surrounded with grotesques and mythological beasts (areas of reweaving, replacements)-8ft. 9in. x 6ft. 3in. (2m. 62cm. x 1m. 87cm.)

Lot Essay

A related Brugges tapestry centrally woven an oval medallion surrounded by similar grotesques and mytholical beasts is illustrated in Dr. V. Vermmersch, Zilver and Wandtapijten, exhibition catalogue, Gruuthusemuseum, Brugges, 1980, p. 288-298.