THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A BRUSSELS BIBLICAT TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting a bearded elder introducing a courty lady to a kneeling soldier carrying his spear, within an extensive landscape with lizards and foliage in the foreground, a crowned ruler proudly seated beneath the canopy of his horse-drawn chariot with soldiers in attendance, the extensive classical arcade beyond centred by a herm-supported portico with a silhouette of Caesar, with extensive arcaded arbours and water gardens and a river landscape with hill towns and windmills beyond, within a richly scrolled foliate border of fruiting foliage, exotic birds and citrus trees and centred by the figures, Europa and the bull to top and bottom flanked to the lower angles by palm-bearing guardians, within a partially replaced blue slip, extensive restorations, reweaving and patching, reduced in height and to the right hand border, late 16th/early 17th Century, rebacked
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A BRUSSELS BIBLICAT TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, depicting a bearded elder introducing a courty lady to a kneeling soldier carrying his spear, within an extensive landscape with lizards and foliage in the foreground, a crowned ruler proudly seated beneath the canopy of his horse-drawn chariot with soldiers in attendance, the extensive classical arcade beyond centred by a herm-supported portico with a silhouette of Caesar, with extensive arcaded arbours and water gardens and a river landscape with hill towns and windmills beyond, within a richly scrolled foliate border of fruiting foliage, exotic birds and citrus trees and centred by the figures, Europa and the bull to top and bottom flanked to the lower angles by palm-bearing guardians, within a partially replaced blue slip, extensive restorations, reweaving and patching, reduced in height and to the right hand border, late 16th/early 17th Century, rebacked
105½in. x 131¾in. (267cm. x 334cm.)
105½in. x 131¾in. (267cm. x 334cm.)