Lot 807
  • 807

A German hunting tapestry, copy after 'Les Chasses de Maximilien', representing The Month of September, after Bernard van Orley, München circa 1920/30

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description

  • height 249cm., width 199cm.
woven with the hunting party approaching the river bank and the hounds and footmen in pursuit of the stag into the lake, with town buildings in the distance, within a four-sided floral, foliate and vegetal border, on a central stem, the horizontal borders including small game birds, the top border centred by a medallion enclosing a set of scales surmounted by a winged cupid head, representing the sign of the zodiac for September, with monogram MG