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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (lots 135-140)
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 'Mark Antony Fishing' from the series 'The Story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra', with Mark Antony standing in a boat and Cleopatra waiting on the shore with her atttendants, a port beyond, 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 laurel festoons, the lower border with reclining lions supporting crowns and with interlacing foliate outer border and brown slip, with spurious reattached 'BB' town mark to the lower right, with patched replacement to the upper cartouche motif, areas of restoration and reweaving and some further patched areas, particularly to the female figure faces
12 ft. x 12 ft. 11 in. (367 cm. x 393 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 'Mark Antony Fishing' from the series 'The Story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra', with Mark Antony standing in a boat and Cleopatra waiting on the shore with her atttendants, a port beyond, 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 laurel festoons, the lower border with reclining lions supporting crowns and with interlacing foliate outer border and brown slip, with spurious reattached 'BB' town mark to the lower right, with patched replacement to the upper cartouche motif, areas of restoration and reweaving and some further patched areas, particularly to the female figure faces
12 ft. x 12 ft. 11 in. (367 cm. x 393 cm.)
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