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LATE 16TH CENTURY/EARLY 17TH CENTURY,
Details
A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY,
Late 16th Century/Early 17th Century,
Centrally woven with a bearded man kneeling before a general, the background with a military procession before music-making maidens, with a wide border with central medallions, to the sides depicting a couple and at the top and bottom a maiden with two boys, the angles and sides with standing figures of virtues, with foliate and scrolling sprays, within later blue guard borders, reduced in width to the left and in height to top and bottom
145in. (368cm.) high, 100in. (254cm.) wide
Late 16th Century/Early 17th Century,
Centrally woven with a bearded man kneeling before a general, the background with a military procession before music-making maidens, with a wide border with central medallions, to the sides depicting a couple and at the top and bottom a maiden with two boys, the angles and sides with standing figures of virtues, with foliate and scrolling sprays, within later blue guard borders, reduced in width to the left and in height to top and bottom
145in. (368cm.) high, 100in. (254cm.) wide
Provenance
Sold Christie's London, 30 October 1997, lot 245 (£5500).