Lot 18
18
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY woven in silks and wools with a scene of fishermen landing their catch on a quayside, under the guns of a fort with a round tower, the inner border woven with beads and framed by scrolling acanthus and with cartouche angles, mid-17th Century, with Brussels town mark, repair to rectangular cut area in bottom left corner, areas of repair, particularly to the border, rebacked

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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY woven in silks and wools with a scene of fishermen landing their catch on a quayside, under the guns of a fort with a round tower, the inner border woven with beads and framed by scrolling acanthus and with cartouche angles, mid-17th Century, with Brussels town mark, repair to rectangular cut area in bottom left corner, areas of repair, particularly to the border, rebacked
11ft.10in. x 12ft.3in.

Lot Essay

The same model was sold in these Room 26 June 1952, lot 212 and for the collection of Major Harold T.Morton, 3 May 1962

A larger version of this subject from the series of Teniers tapestries woven at Brussels by Jerome Le Clere and Jacques van der Borcht is illustrated H. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 8, and is discussed p. 6

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