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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 141-142)
The following two tapestries form part of a series of nine tapestries woven in Northern Netherlands in the first half 17th Century. Karel van Mander II is recorded as having designed the series in circa 1621 but was only able to complete the weaving of three of the tapestries by his death in 1623. The workshop of Aert Spiering took over the van Mander workshop and with it its designs It is further recorded that Jan van Os, an Amsterdam merchant, received a set of this series from the Schoonhoven tapestry workshop of Joris Nauwincx in 1631. A further mention of this series is in documents between Karl Wrangel, in Stockholm and Appelboom, an intermediary, who sold three sets woven by Pieter de Cracht to him in 1649-50. Several weaving centres, including Delft, seem to have woven this series with variant borders and slight variations to the designs.
(E. Hartkamp-Jonxis and H. Smit, European Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum, Zwolle, 2004, p. 180)
A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
POSSIBLY GOUDA OR SCHOONHOVEN, SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY, AFTER KAREL VAN MANDER II, POSSIBLY BY JACQUES NAUWINCX OR PIETER DE CRACHT
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A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
POSSIBLY GOUDA OR SCHOONHOVEN, SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY, AFTER KAREL VAN MANDER II, POSSIBLY BY JACQUES NAUWINCX OR PIETER DE CRACHT
Woven in silks and wools, depicting 'The Banquet of Cleopatra' from the series of 'The Story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra', with Mark Antony and Cleopatra seated at a table, flanked by guards and attendants, a palatial garden beyond with floral and foliate festoons and guards with trumpets on a balcony, the border with military trophies and draped figures to the sides, the upper and lower border centred by a cartouche and flanked by vases, shields and further festoons, the lower border with reclining lions supporting crowns and with interlacing foliate outer border and brown slip, with patched replacement to the cartouche, restoration and reweaving, slightly reduced in height
12 ft. x 12 ft. 10 in. (365 cm. x 392 cm.)
POSSIBLY GOUDA OR SCHOONHOVEN, SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY, AFTER KAREL VAN MANDER II, POSSIBLY BY JACQUES NAUWINCX OR PIETER DE CRACHT
Woven in silks and wools, depicting 'The Banquet of Cleopatra' from the series of 'The Story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra', with Mark Antony and Cleopatra seated at a table, flanked by guards and attendants, a palatial garden beyond with floral and foliate festoons and guards with trumpets on a balcony, the border with military trophies and draped figures to the sides, the upper and lower border centred by a cartouche and flanked by vases, shields and further festoons, the lower border with reclining lions supporting crowns and with interlacing foliate outer border and brown slip, with patched replacement to the cartouche, restoration and reweaving, slightly reduced in height
12 ft. x 12 ft. 10 in. (365 cm. x 392 cm.)
榮譽呈獻
Gillian Ward
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