AUDENARDE, CIRCA 1560-1590

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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENARDE, CIRCA 1560-1590
Woven in wools and silks, depicting to the foreground a wolf and a deer and in the background courtly dressed people outside a fortified building, in a wooded landscape, within a ribbon-twist border with strapwork and fruiting foliage and decorated with classically draped male and female figures and a blue outer slip, reduced in size, with associated reweaving, with areas of reweaving and with a restored cut to the upper end
12 ft. 3 in. x 8 ft. 4 in. (374 cm. x 252 cm.)

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Lot Essay

A pergola game-park tapestry with very similar border including the same figures to the bottom and side borders, but flanked by the more standard foliage and fruits is in the Audenarde town collection and illustrated in I. de Meûter and M. Vanvelden, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, Tielt, 1999, p. 134. The tapestry in Audenarde with its companion are signed by an unidentified weaver, who could very well also be responsible for the weaving of the offered lot.

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