A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY

AUDENARDE, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENARDE, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools, depicting 'Jacob and his family traveling in Egypt', set in a landscape with additional figures travelling with them, including a female on horseback and distant camels with distant hills and town walls, within an elaborate strapwork, foliate and flowering border, each corner with a clothed term figure emerging from a strapwork support and further masks and swags and crouching animals with human heads, within further narrow inner and outer stylised curled ribbon and stylised star and geometric motifs respectively, all on a saffron ground, with areas of reweaving and restorations
88 in. (224 cm.) high; 174 in. (444 cm.) wide

Provenance

Hôtel Drouot (Madame Bondu), Paris, 18 December 1989.
Anonymous; Sotheby's, London, 28 October 1994, lot 282.

Literature

I. de Meûter, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVI au XVIII Siècle, Tielt, 1999, p. 169, illus.

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Lot Essay

A tapestry of identical subject is at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, having the same distinctive borders and bearing the town mark for Audenarde as well as two unidentified weaver’s marks (I. de Meûter, Tapisseries d’Audenarde, Tielt, 1999, pp. 169 and 170).

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