A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY
Specified lots (sold and unsold) marked with a fil… Read more PROPERTY FROM A VILLA IN TUSCANY (LOTS 86-87, 489 & 528)
A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY

BRUSSELS, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, MID-18TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting a fête champêtre with elegantly dressed figures resting outside a riverside inn, with a bird seller and a village beyond, within a simulated giltwood picture frame border decorated with espagnolette masks
9 ft. 5 in. x 16 ft. 8 in. (287 cm. x 510 cm.)
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Lot Essay

This tapestry is related to a group depicting fête champêtres, including two sold from the collection of The Earl of Iveagh, Elveden Hall, Thetford, Norfolk, Christie's, 21-24 May 1987, lots 1754 and 1757, which bore the weaver's mark of Pieter van der Borght (d. 1763). Another Brussels weaver recorded to have woven such scenes and stylised picture frame borders was Pieter van der Hecke (d. 1752) (see D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1994, p. 222).

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