A Flemish Teniers Verdure Tapestry, Brussels, probably Peter and Jan-Frans van der Borght late 18th century

woven with small figures of musicians and onlookers seated and standing over benches, in foreground of fenced off building, with trees in distance, within a narrow scrolling leaf and stem border; reduced in width

Tapestry is lined with cotton backing. Velcro is attached across the top for hanging purposes. Background is stable. Some warps showing in light areas, for example to highlights on figures. Border cut and joined. Later sections of border. Left hand side of border original and with original brown selvedge. Overall in good restored condition. Decorative panel. Versatile size.
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H. C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, pg. 55, pl.42b, for a weaving of a much wider composition, of which the present tapestry is the left hand side, described as Miscellaneous, Verdure with small figures, and attributed to P and (J-)F. van der Borght, within a narrow frame pattern border of scrolling acanthus and stem design. The right hand side of the composition reveals further figures in an elaborate formal garden with elaborate château in the background, the lake beyond with fountain feature and leisure boat. Several sets of this generic series are recorded by Marillier, ibid, one from Ravensworth (offered at Christie's, 13^th May 1926) and another at Petworth, some with frame pattern borders, and a single panel from the series with a gipsy scene belonging to Lord Yarborough, with a narrow stem and acanthus border