Sale 6072
London
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12 February 1999
Price realised
GBP 40,000
Estimate
AN OUDENAARDE GAME-PARK TAPESTRY 16th Century Woven in wools, depicting a lion hunt, with various hunters on horseback and on foot attacking a lion with many dogs surrounding it, to the right with a couple flanked by cupid and to the left with a hunter and an elder approaching, set in an open wooded landscape and the background with large buildings and a river before a hilly landscape, the border with figures of the Virtues within recessed arches divided by vases of fruits and flowers, to the bottom and top with a vignette of an eagle, within a yellow outer slip, areas of reweaving and patching and the main field possibly reduced in height 9 ft. 5 in. x 14 ft. 6 in. (287 cm. x 442 cm.)
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