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A FLEMISH BAROQUE GAME PARK TAPESTRY
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Woven with a dense forest landscape with mounted horsemen, a minstrel serenading a maiden and other courtiers, with a mountainous vista with a fortress and river in the distance, the borders woven with allegorical figures, flower and fruit-filled classical vessels and foliate arbours, the lower right selvedge with weaver's monogram and town mark (areas of reweaving)-8ft. 9½in. x 15ft. (2m. 68cm. x 4m. 57cm.)
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Woven with a dense forest landscape with mounted horsemen, a minstrel serenading a maiden and other courtiers, with a mountainous vista with a fortress and river in the distance, the borders woven with allegorical figures, flower and fruit-filled classical vessels and foliate arbours, the lower right selvedge with weaver's monogram and town mark (areas of reweaving)-8ft. 9½in. x 15ft. (2m. 68cm. x 4m. 57cm.)
Literature
This monogram is possibly that of Heinrich van Assihe, recorded as working in Brussels 1635-1680. The town mark is possibly that of Antwerp.