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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 186-187) The following two tapestries are conceived in a manner that was fashionable in various Flemish weaving centers as well as in the Marche region of France (Aubusson and Felletin). These hunting scenes traditionally included falcon, lion, ostrich, fox, unicorn, rhinoceros, wolf, bear and boar hunts and were inspired by engravings after Giovanni Stradano (d. 1605), Karel van Mander the Younger (d. 1623), David Vinckeboons (d. 1629) and Français Etienne Delaune (d. 1583).

A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT

LATE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE REGION

细节

A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
Late 16th Century, possibly Marche region
Woven in wools, depicting an elephant hunt, with various hunters on horseback and a herd of charging elephants, within an exotic wooded landscape with palm trees and a village in the background, in a brown outer slip, lacking borders, areas of reweaving and patching
8 ft. 2 in. (250 cm.) x 8 ft. 8 in. (265 cm.) (2)

来源

Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire, recorded in the corridor in 1939.

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