BRUSSELS, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in silks, wools and metal threads, depicting 'Vulcan's Forge' with Vulcan at his anvil and a figure at the forge behind, the right side with soldiers carrying armour, within a strap-work border with fruits and foliage, with unidentified weaver's mark, some minor localised losses and areas of reweaving to the dark brown and black threads
70 7/8 in. (180 cm.) high; 179 ½ in. (455 cm.) wide

Exhibited

Poznan, Muzeum Narodowe, to whom on loan since 2002.

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Lot Essay

This tapestry bears an unidentified weaver’s mark centred by a crossed heart flanked by initials. The crossed heart appears also on a tapestry in the Spanish Royal Collection depicting The Story of Saint Anthony after Hieronimus Bosch, woven in the 1550s (P. Junquera de Vega and C. Herrero Carretero, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, pp. 263-267, cat. 36).

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