Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR
ENGLISH BACCHANALIAN TAPESTRY FROM THE 'NAKED BOYS' SERIES, PROBABLY SOHO, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN VANDERBANK, IN THE MANNER OF FRANCIS CLEYN
LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
7 ft. 2 in. by 12 ft. 9 in.; 2.19 m. by 3.88 m.
Marillier, in English Tapestries of the 18th century, London, 1930, notes a complete set of this series known as the Naked Boys series, at Cotehele, Cornwall. One panel was woven with the name John Vanderbank (d. 1717), the pre-eminent director of the Great Wardrobe, and included the same bead-and-reel outer border.