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SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting to the left a bearded man in classical dress and to the right a king with body armour, in a wooded landscape with mounted soldiers and a fortress in the background, within a fruiting foliate border decorated to the sides and angles with allegorical female figures and a flowerhead-filled spirally-twisted border and later yellow and light blue outer slip, some areas of reweaving
9 ft. 6 in. x 10 ft. 8 in. (288 cm. x 324 cm.)
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting to the left a bearded man in classical dress and to the right a king with body armour, in a wooded landscape with mounted soldiers and a fortress in the background, within a fruiting foliate border decorated to the sides and angles with allegorical female figures and a flowerhead-filled spirally-twisted border and later yellow and light blue outer slip, some areas of reweaving
9 ft. 6 in. x 10 ft. 8 in. (288 cm. x 324 cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 26 January 2000, lot 100.
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