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CIRCA 1600
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A BRUSSELS BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
Circa 1600
The central panel woven with a scene of a woman drinking from a vessel and standing with another woman and a serpent-child within a tree-lined hilly landscape with a castle and riders on horseback in the distance, within a trellis border woven with flower and fruit-filled baskets and with monkeys and putti, the lower corners with allegorical figures of Plenty, the upper border centered by a seated female figure of a woman holding a scepter and a leafy branch, with Brussels town mark to lower left border, restorations and replacements to lower border
127in. high, 75in. wide (322.5cm. x 190.5cm.)
Circa 1600
The central panel woven with a scene of a woman drinking from a vessel and standing with another woman and a serpent-child within a tree-lined hilly landscape with a castle and riders on horseback in the distance, within a trellis border woven with flower and fruit-filled baskets and with monkeys and putti, the lower corners with allegorical figures of Plenty, the upper border centered by a seated female figure of a woman holding a scepter and a leafy branch, with Brussels town mark to lower left border, restorations and replacements to lower border
127in. high, 75in. wide (322.5cm. x 190.5cm.)