17TH CENTURY
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A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY BORDER FRAGMENT
17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a landscape panel with the seated figure Ceres and in the background with a figure picking an apple, flanked by two figures supporting a foliate canopy headed by a grotesque figure, above a further figure issuing from foliage below a blue drapery canopy, within a later blue outer slip, re-weaving and patching, the out slip later
66 in. x 20 in. (168 cm. x 51 cm.)
17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a landscape panel with the seated figure Ceres and in the background with a figure picking an apple, flanked by two figures supporting a foliate canopy headed by a grotesque figure, above a further figure issuing from foliage below a blue drapery canopy, within a later blue outer slip, re-weaving and patching, the out slip later
66 in. x 20 in. (168 cm. x 51 cm.)