Lot 316
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A LILLE TENIERS TAPESTRY attributed to Willem Werniers, woven in wools and silks, with a fountain in the form of dolphins surmounted by a merman and with a parrot perched to one side, flanked by two fishermen carrying baskets of fish and three further peasants in the centre, within a wooded landscape with a château beyond, within a border of scrolling foliage with cartouches of fan-motifs in each corner and centred by an armorial shield surmounted by a coronet at the top, within a brown outer border, re-weaving, associated armorial shield, 17th Century

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A LILLE TENIERS TAPESTRY attributed to Willem Werniers, woven in wools and silks, with a fountain in the form of dolphins surmounted by a merman and with a parrot perched to one side, flanked by two fishermen carrying baskets of fish and three further peasants in the centre, within a wooded landscape with a château beyond, within a border of scrolling foliage with cartouches of fan-motifs in each corner and centred by an armorial shield surmounted by a coronet at the top, within a brown outer border, re-weaving, associated armorial shield, 17th Century
135in. x 156in. (343cm. x 397cm.)

Lot Essay

Identical figures appear in reverse in the Brussels tapestry, almost certainly woven by Josse de Vos (1700-1735) after David Teniers II, sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 11 January 1994, lot 227, as well as on a Lille tapestry attributed to Willem Werniers, sold by the executors of the late Irene, Countess of Plymouth, 10 December 1993, lot 17. A closely related Lille tapestry, the border enriched with the same armorial , is illustrated in H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 90, pl. 50

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