LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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AN AUDENARDE VERDURE TAPESTRY
Late 17th early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting two crowned cranes in a woodland clearing, with a castle in the background, with foliated border with medallions centred by faces, within a later brown outer slip, losses, the top of the main field folded over by 11½ in. (29 cm.)
9ft. 6 in. (290 cm.) high x 8ft. 9 in. (267 cm.) wide

Provenance

Captain A.S. Wills, acquired in the 1920s, thence by descent to
Richard A. Wills Esq., Thornby Hall, Northamptonshire, Christie's House Sale 22-23 October 1984, lot 243.

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Lot Essay

This tapestry is virtually identical to one in the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, with the exception of the plant to the left foreground and the position of the bird in the right upper corner (I. De Meûter and M. Vanwelden, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIIe Siècle, Tielt, 1999, p. 218). De Meûter and Vanwelden compare the background of this tapestry to that of examples where the authorship of Pieter Spierinckx (d. 1711) is confirmed and believe it to be by the same hand (idiem., p. 219).

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