A Flemish Pastoral Tapestry mid 18th century

depicting a seated shepherd playing bagpipes, a shepherdess playing a flute, another peasant and a cow beside a rocky stream amidst a wooded landscape with a tower and town beyond, the flowering border incorporating ribbons, vessels, and birds.

Good colors. Slightly reduced. Needs lining. Good restorations throughout, cuts and reweaving in border.
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For the group of shepherd-musicians, see Textiles: The Isabella Steward Gardener Museum, Boston, 1986, no. 21, and Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, pp. 73, 85, pl. 57b.