Lot 132A
  • 132A

A Flemish landscape tapestry Oudenaarde, circa 1670-1690

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 EUR
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Description

  • 325 by 238cm.
woven with a woodland setting, with a central path meandering from the foreground into the woodland, past a river which courses into the distant hills on which perches a town, the centre foreground has two birds, and there are flowering plants in the foreground plane, all within a deep four-sided floral border, with exuberant fruit and foliage linked together by blue ribbon tied bows, with corner acanthus clasp corner motifs (cut and joined), on a saffron yellow ground, with a narrow yellow and brown banded inner border and an outer yellow selvedge