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AUDENAARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENAARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depictingTobias before his blinded father Tobit and mother Anna, in a landscape setting, the border woven with alternating allegorical standing figures and groupings of exotic fruit, two outer slips later, some minor areas of reweaving
9 ft. 1 in. x 6 ft. 4 ½ in. (277 cm. x 196 cm.)
AUDENAARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depictingTobias before his blinded father Tobit and mother Anna, in a landscape setting, the border woven with alternating allegorical standing figures and groupings of exotic fruit, two outer slips later, some minor areas of reweaving
9 ft. 1 in. x 6 ft. 4 ½ in. (277 cm. x 196 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 October 2008, lot 60.
Literature
I. de Meuter, Tapisseries d'Audernarde du XVI au XVIII Siècle, Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, pp. 148-179, for examples of comparable early Oudernaarde biblical tapestries, some of which have a similar border.
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