Lot 3
  • 3

A Flemish late Gothic tapestry panel early 16th century, possibly Tournai

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Description

  • height 8ft. 2 1/2 in.; width 8ft. 1/2 in.
  • (2.50m; 2.44m)
probably depicting the fountain of life, the fountain in the upper right corner, deer within an enclosed area to the left, the remainder filled with a variety of flora and fauna including a unicorn in the lower right corner.

Provenance

Dinolevi, Florence, circa 1960

Catalogue Note

For a similar type, see H. Göbel, Wandteppiche, Leipzig, 1923, part I, vol. II, no 95.