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SOHO, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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AN ENGLISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
SOHO, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting the 'Celebration of Pan', with male and female figures making music and dancing at a veranda with a sculpture of Pan, beneath an overhanging tree with woodland to the left and flowers in the foreground, in a narrow bead-and-reel border
6 ft. 3 in. x 16 ft. 6 in. (191 x 503 cm.)
SOHO, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting the 'Celebration of Pan', with male and female figures making music and dancing at a veranda with a sculpture of Pan, beneath an overhanging tree with woodland to the left and flowers in the foreground, in a narrow bead-and-reel border
6 ft. 3 in. x 16 ft. 6 in. (191 x 503 cm.)
Provenance
The late Graham Baron Ash, Esq., Wingfield Castle, Diss, Norfolk, sold Christie's house sale, 30 May 1980.
Christie's, London, 26 January 2011, lot 372, where acquired by the present owner.
Christie's, London, 26 January 2011, lot 372, where acquired by the present owner.
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