AN ANTWERP MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

LATE 17TH CENTURY

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AN ANTWERP MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Late 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a sacrificial procession with a white garland-hung bull being led towareds a flaming altar with a statue of a youth holding a torch, the bull surrounded by music-making youths and priests, behind them a king wearing a turban before a kneeling maiden and various attendants, the background with large buildings and a park landscape, the top with floral garlands and within an egg-and-dart border and a later cream and brown oute slip, areas of reweaving and patching, reduced in height at the bottom and in width to the left, lacking borders, a patch to the lower right cut and re-attached
8 ft. 3 in. x 11 ft. 7 in. (252 cm. x 353 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale Audap, Solanet, Godeau-Velliet, Paris, 24 June 1994, lot 112.

Lot Essay

A tapestry of identical design but extending on all sides and with differing borders, from the collection of the Earl of Lonsdale, O.B.E., Lowther Castle, Cumberland, was sold Maple and Co and T. Wyatt, 20-22 May 1947, again anonymously at Sotheby's London, 30 March 1962, lot 101, and again in these Rooms, 10 March 1988, lot 197.

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