Lot 369
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lots 369-373)
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks and depicting a still-life of tulips, lilies, roses and other flowers, standing in a grotesque-mask-handled urn above a garlanded pedestal, flanked by a leopard devouring a chick, while a turkey and the rest of her chicks look on, beneath a portico hung with garlanded floral-swags and supported by marble Corinthian columns, within an extensive landscape with rustic houses, a watermill, a windmill, villages and further trees, the perspectival slip within an outer border woven with fruit-gathering putti standing in shell-niches and standing upon gadrooned and swagged lion-mask plinths, the top and bottom borders centred by cartouche-shaped vignettes with river landscapes, flanked by snakes and eagles and tritons gathering overflowing cornucopiae of fruits with further exotic birds, within an outer slip, woven with the Brussels town mark and a weaver's mark, restorations, some areas of re-weaving, the top blue slip replaced, mid-17th Century

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A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks and depicting a still-life of tulips, lilies, roses and other flowers, standing in a grotesque-mask-handled urn above a garlanded pedestal, flanked by a leopard devouring a chick, while a turkey and the rest of her chicks look on, beneath a portico hung with garlanded floral-swags and supported by marble Corinthian columns, within an extensive landscape with rustic houses, a watermill, a windmill, villages and further trees, the perspectival slip within an outer border woven with fruit-gathering putti standing in shell-niches and standing upon gadrooned and swagged lion-mask plinths, the top and bottom borders centred by cartouche-shaped vignettes with river landscapes, flanked by snakes and eagles and tritons gathering overflowing cornucopiae of fruits with further exotic birds, within an outer slip, woven with the Brussels town mark and a weaver's mark, restorations, some areas of re-weaving, the top blue slip replaced, mid-17th Century
134½ x 207in. (342 x 525cm.)

Lot Essay

Heinrich Reydams I flourished 1629-1669.

A closely related suite of tapestries, depicting on one the central section without the animals and on two others the leopard, is illustrated in Catálogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, vol. II, serie 67, pp. 220-231. A further set depicting the entire landscape with minor alterations to the vegetation and the horizon, attributed to the Oudenard workshops and possibly designed by Jan Boeckhorst, a pupil of Rubens are discussed op. cit. serie 68, pp. 232-242

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