Sale 6183
London
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30 September 1999
Price realised
GBP 12,650
Estimate
A FLEMISH VERDURE TAPESTRY 17th Century Woven in wools and silks, depicting a wooded landscape with hunting hounds and a fox to the foreground on the right hand side, a pond and a small castle to the background, within a fruited and floral border and later brown outer slip, the main field reduced in size, minute reweaving and patching to the bottom corner of the border 9 ft. 5 in. (287 cm.) square
Provenance
Mr Rudolf Welter, Ritterhaus Gulderngossa, near Leipzig, 1932, thence by descent to present owner.
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