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Lot Essay
It is certain that weaving centres such as Enghien, Grammont and Audenarde manufactured large-leaf verdure tapestries but it is also probable that many other cities produced similar works. It is believed that most weaving centres in southern Flanders were actually involved in the production of these tapestries and that possibly even towns of the Marche district in France may have woven examples. The identification of specific weaving centres for these tapestries is greatly hindered by the rarity of town marks on the tapestries and insufficient descriptions of the tapestries in 16th Century records.
A large-leaf tapestry that has similar borders and thorn-like leaves that are not veined, is in the Museum for Fine Arts, Boston (A Cavallo, Tapestries of Europe and of Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1967, vol. II, pl. 27, and vol. I, cat. 27, pp. 106 - 107). These particularities, including the borders that have leaves that do not overlap with the main filed and vice versa, allow Cavallo to attribute that tapestry loosely to Enghien and more so to Grammont based on comparable pieces that bear town marks. Two such pieces are in the Austrian State Collection, Vienna, and are illustrated in L. Baldass, Die Wiener Gobelinssammlung, Vienna, 1920, vol. I, pls. 108 and 106 (bearing the marks of Enghien and Grammont, respectively), while a third bearing the town mark of Grammont is in the Hamburgisches Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe (H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, pl. 471).
A large-leaf tapestry that has similar borders and thorn-like leaves that are not veined, is in the Museum for Fine Arts, Boston (A Cavallo, Tapestries of Europe and of Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1967, vol. II, pl. 27, and vol. I, cat. 27, pp. 106 - 107). These particularities, including the borders that have leaves that do not overlap with the main filed and vice versa, allow Cavallo to attribute that tapestry loosely to Enghien and more so to Grammont based on comparable pieces that bear town marks. Two such pieces are in the Austrian State Collection, Vienna, and are illustrated in L. Baldass, Die Wiener Gobelinssammlung, Vienna, 1920, vol. I, pls. 108 and 106 (bearing the marks of Enghien and Grammont, respectively), while a third bearing the town mark of Grammont is in the Hamburgisches Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe (H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, pl. 471).