Lot Essay
A further tapestry depicting 'Winter' from this series was offered at Ader, Tajan, Paris, 12 December 1990, lot 187.
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LATE 17TH CENTURY
Details
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY DEPICTING SPRING FROM 'THE SEASONS OF LUCAS' SERIES
Late 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks and depicting fishermen at a stream netting fish before a city gate, with courtly ladies and gentlemen descending from a drawbridge and figures in the distance gardening, hoeing and staking vines, the heavens with the figure of Flora bearing a tree sprig and book before a river landscape, within a border densely woven with floral garlands of lilies, tulips, morning glories and other flowers and enriched with apples, pears, plums, cherries and other fruits, as well as hounds chasing hares in a later green outer slip, some reweaving and patching, previously cut and reattached in the center
157in. x 236in. (399cm. x 599cm.)
Late 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks and depicting fishermen at a stream netting fish before a city gate, with courtly ladies and gentlemen descending from a drawbridge and figures in the distance gardening, hoeing and staking vines, the heavens with the figure of Flora bearing a tree sprig and book before a river landscape, within a border densely woven with floral garlands of lilies, tulips, morning glories and other flowers and enriched with apples, pears, plums, cherries and other fruits, as well as hounds chasing hares in a later green outer slip, some reweaving and patching, previously cut and reattached in the center
157in. x 236in. (399cm. x 599cm.)
Provenance
The Viscount Wimborne, Canford Manor, Dorset, sold Christie's London, 6-8 March 1923, lot 148.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Dane.
The Brookline Trust Company, Massachusetts.
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a New England Institution'), sold Christie's New York, 26 April 1990, lot 7 ($71,500).
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Dane.
The Brookline Trust Company, Massachusetts.
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a New England Institution'), sold Christie's New York, 26 April 1990, lot 7 ($71,500).
Literature
Edith Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 322-323, no. 49 a-c.
F.M. Ricci, Quelques chefs-d'oeuvre de La Collection Djahanguir Riahi, Paris, 2000, pp.66-72 (illustrated).
F.M. Ricci, Quelques chefs-d'oeuvre de La Collection Djahanguir Riahi, Paris, 2000, pp.66-72 (illustrated).
Special notice
This lot has no reserve.