An English pastoral tapestry Circa 1700, probably Soho

Christie's London, June 25, 1981, lot 135

Lined. With velcro. Good colors of the whole palette. Restoration throughout, particularly to cream-colored silk areas. Some small paint drips along lower and upper right corner of the selvage. Reduced and consequently there are cuts in the coners of the border with areas of reweaving (more reweaving in lower right corner of border). Some restoration to inner guard and selvage. Lower selvage and small section of right selvage are replaced.
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The same border design is used on a set of three Soho bacchanalian panels from the collection of Mrs. Wrangham (H.C. Marillier, English Tapestires of the Eighteenth Century, 1930, pl. 10). A similar border, comparable facial types, and drapery can be seen in a Soho historical tapestry from the life of Diogenes, sold by Christie's London, May 16, 1996, lot 214. The figure styl can also be compared with a Mortlake series of Ovid's Metamorphoses (op. cit., pls. 24b, 29b, and 35a).