A FLEMISH TAPESTRY FRAGMENT woven in wools and silks with winged putti clinging to foliate trails on a brown ground above a triple dolphin-headed fountain, the top section centred by a claw-footed pedestal with fruiting swags flanked by peacock feathers, mid-17th Century, previously the border of a tapestry, reduced in size

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An identical border appears on the series of The Story of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, by the workshop of Geraert Peemans in the Bavarian state collection, Munich, illustrated H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig.340. It also appears on another set of the same series and a series of The Story of Dido and Aeneas in the Spanish Royal Collection, Madrid, illustrated Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, Vol II, pp.27-61 and pp.164-172

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