拍品 359
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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY attributed to Peter and Franz van der Borght, woven in wools and silks, depicting milkmaids with ducks, sheep and cattle, in an extensive rural landscape with a well and rustic village beyond, the associated ribbon-twist and scrolling foliate border woven with acorns and acanthus and flanked by scrolling foliate scallop-shell angle-clasps, in a later brown slip, restorationms and areas of re-weaving, the borders slightly reduced in size, late 17th Century

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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY attributed to Peter and Franz van der Borght, woven in wools and silks, depicting milkmaids with ducks, sheep and cattle, in an extensive rural landscape with a well and rustic village beyond, the associated ribbon-twist and scrolling foliate border woven with acorns and acanthus and flanked by scrolling foliate scallop-shell angle-clasps, in a later brown slip, restorationms and areas of re-weaving, the borders slightly reduced in size, late 17th Century
135 x 78in. (343 x 198cm.)

拍品專文

As H.C. Marillier records in his, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 51, pl. 196, the Milking Scene was a popular subject and numerous versions of varying width are known, several woven by Peter (1742-63) and Franz van der Borght (1720-65).

A similar, although more extensive, tapestry from Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire was sold in these Rooms, 20 November 1919, and another, part of a set of four, was sold by The Earl of Bradford from Castle Bromwich, Sotheby's, 15 July 1938. Another was sold in these Rooms, 27 March 1986, lot 193.

A further version by Franz van der Borcht is in The Royal Collection in Vienna (see L. Baldass, Die Wiener Gobelinssammlung, Vienna 1920, no. 291)