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    PROPERTY FROM THE GUTMANN COLLECTION

    Amsterdam

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    13 May 2003

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    • A North German biblical tapest
    Lot 32

    A North German biblical tapestry panel

    POSSIBLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN OR HAMBURG

    Price realised

    EUR 2,151

    Estimate

    EUR 2,000 - EUR 3,000

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    A North German biblical tapestry panel
    Possibly 17th Century, possibly Schleswig Holstein or Hamburg
    Woven in wools and silks, depicting Samson and the Lion, flanked by angels, within a border of flowers and fruit and perching birds, with label to the back inscribed R.B.K. 1954-30
    51 cm. x 54 cm.

    Provenance

    E. Gutmann, Berlin.
    F.B.E. Gutmann, Heemstede.
    With J.W. Böhler, Munich, 1942.
    With K. Haberstock, Berlin, 1942.
    The Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, no. NK3208, on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954).
    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1960 until restituted to Gutmann's heirs in 2002.

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    Lot Essay

    This particular cushion depicts Samson and the Lion and has the same general composition as that of a cushion frontal in the Burrell Collection in the Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries (C. Adelson, European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1994, p. 370, fig. 156), while another was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 8 July 1976, lot 112. The differences are basically limited to the bird at the top and bottom of the border that are replaced by further flowers and the inner field on which the angels are depicted, which include rabbits and differing vegetation. A tapestry with the same composition and very similar borders from the Mayorcas Collection, was sold at Christie's London, 12 February 1999, lot 364.

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