A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY

SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

Details

A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
Second half 16th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting the Boar Hunt, with several hunters and dogs attacking a boar to the centre field, flanked by trees on each side, and with foliage to the foreground and centred by a castle and a mountainous landscape with further houses and churches to the background, within a later ribbon-tied and berried foliate border and brown outer slip, reweaving and patching, restorations to vertical and horizontal folds
8 ft. 8 in. x 8 ft. 4 in. (264 cm. x 254 cm.)

Provenance

Heinrich Zschille, circa 1860, Grossenhein, near Dresden, thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

Further tapestries which have very similar compositions, one of a Lion Hunt and another of a Fox Hunt, were sold anonymously at Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 18 March 1980, lot 160, and 9 December 1981, lot 328 respectively, while a further panel depicting a Bear Hunt is illustrated in 'Les Fastes de la Tapisserie', exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1984, p. 39, cat. 16.

See also lot 198 of this sale.

More from Fine European Furniture, Tapestries and Carpets

View All