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THE MAIN PANEL CIRCA 1640
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A BRUSSELS HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
The main panel Circa 1640
From the Story of Antony and Cleopatra, centrally woven with a banquet scene depicting Antony and Cleopatra attended by servants bearing baskets of fruit and fowl, with Cleopatra dissolving a pearl in Antony's drink, with a warrior attendant standing watch at left and with an attendant fetching wine from a cistern in the foreground, beneath ribbon-tied floral bouquets and garlands suspending drapery at the sides, the top centered by an oval cartouche inscribed HISTORIA ILLUISTRIS CLEOPATRA ET MARCANTONY within associated scrolling floral borders, the right side of bottom border a 19th Century replacement
129in. x 137in. (327.5cm. x 349cm.), approximately
The main panel Circa 1640
From the Story of Antony and Cleopatra, centrally woven with a banquet scene depicting Antony and Cleopatra attended by servants bearing baskets of fruit and fowl, with Cleopatra dissolving a pearl in Antony's drink, with a warrior attendant standing watch at left and with an attendant fetching wine from a cistern in the foreground, beneath ribbon-tied floral bouquets and garlands suspending drapery at the sides, the top centered by an oval cartouche inscribed HISTORIA ILLUISTRIS CLEOPATRA ET MARCANTONY within associated scrolling floral borders, the right side of bottom border a 19th Century replacement
129in. x 137in. (327.5cm. x 349cm.), approximately