A PAIR OF SPANISH BAROQUE ARMORIAL TAPESTRIES

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A PAIR OF SPANISH BAROQUE ARMORIAL TAPESTRIES
FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

Each woven with a knights' helmet above a coat-of-arms issuing scrolling foliage and enclosing an eagle, a castle and trees, flanked by columns, within later ribbon-tied borders entertwined with tents and drums (rewoven, alterations)-7ft. 1in. x 8ft. 2½in. (2m. 15cm. x 2m. 50cm.), and 7ft. 2in. x 8ft. 1in. (2m. 18cm. x 2m. 46cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

The arms probably include those of the families Montalvo, Carillo and Fajardo of Castile. Related examples of Spanish armorial tapestries from the 17th century are illustrated A. Bennett, Five Centuries of Tapestries from the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1992, pp. 138-140.