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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT

LATE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE REGION

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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
Late 16th Century, possibly Marche region
Woven in wools and silks and depicting a deer hunt with various courtly hunters on horseback and deer hounds within a wooded landscape, a town beyond, lacking borders, areas of reweaving and patching throughout
8 ft. 9 in. (266 cm.) x 8 ft. 8 in. (265 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire, recorded in the corridor in 1939.
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Lot Essay

A stag hunt tapestry that is based on the same composition for the central hunter with the stag is illustrated in P.-F. Bertrand, D. and P. Chevalier, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988, p. 32, while a stag hunt of a differing design is illustrated in H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, Leipzig, 1924, fig. 454.

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