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A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY, woven in wools and silks, possibly depicting The Finding of Moses, with a muse and child greeting a female figure with ceremonial breastplate, probably the Pharoah's daughter, with attendants in tiers beside her, while in the background the mother and child embark, ignoring the protestations of her companions, in an extensive landscape with a fortified town beyond, within a ribbon-twist inner border, the outer border woven with cornucopiae issuing floral bouquets, scrolling-arabesques above birds, monkeys and putto, the top and bottom borders woven with a central vignette of a fortified town, flanked by further arabesques and grotesque satyrs, the whole upon a tan ground within a further foliate outer border and blue slip, late 16th Century, extensive restorations and areas of re-weaving, the blue slip lacking to top and bottom, previously cut and re-joined to the left-hand-side
132 x 177½in. (336 x 400cm.) (9)
132 x 177½in. (336 x 400cm.) (9)