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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOT 361)
A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
MID-16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRUSSELS
Details
A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
MID-16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRUSSELS
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a hunting scene with stags, hounds and huntsmen in the foreground, in a wooded mountainous landscape with formal gardens and a manor house beyond, in an elaborate arcaded border decorated with wild animals and flower-filled vases, the angles with allegorical figures, the borders with restored patches and cuts, reduced in width, areas of reweaving
7 ft. 10 in. x 14 ft. 10 in. (240 x 452 cm.)
MID-16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRUSSELS
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a hunting scene with stags, hounds and huntsmen in the foreground, in a wooded mountainous landscape with formal gardens and a manor house beyond, in an elaborate arcaded border decorated with wild animals and flower-filled vases, the angles with allegorical figures, the borders with restored patches and cuts, reduced in width, areas of reweaving
7 ft. 10 in. x 14 ft. 10 in. (240 x 452 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 November 2007, lot 25.
Brought to you by
Christiaan van Rechteren
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