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Furniture, Silver, Clocks & Ceramics

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 5. An allegorical tapestry, Southern Netherlands, probably Brussels, circa 1510-1520.

Property from a Private Collection

An allegorical tapestry, Southern Netherlands, probably Brussels, circa 1510-1520

Lot Closed

May 17, 11:05 AM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

An allegorical tapestry, Southern Netherlands, probably Brussels, circa 1510-1520


woven with an unidentified fictional secular or sacred narrative, depicting a crowned queen on her canopied throne and holding a sceptre, and before her a standing figure of a lady with a letter, with other onlooking figures in courtly attire, all within an architectural arch supported by narrow twisted columns, within a four-sided border with alternating compartments with small birds and floral swags on an indigo ground ; border later addition, pictorial panel possibly originally part of a larger narrative tapestry

approximately 259cm high, 228cm wide; 8ft 4in, 7ft 4in.

acquired from Galerie Blondeel-DeRoyan, Paris

For an example of a comparable tapestry, with the same compartmentalised border type incorporating the distinctive small birds, and the use within the composition of the architectural columned niche and divides, see a narrative tapestry depicting the Triumph of the Virgin, Brussels, circa 1500 (410cm by 825cm), Burrell Collection, Museums of Glasgow (Acc.No. 46.117).


Comparable literature:

Cleland, Elizabeth and Karafel, Lorraine, Glasgow Museums Tapestries from the Burrell Collection, London and New York, 2017, Catalogue of Tapestries: Part II, Episodes from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Apocrypha and the Lives of the Saints, pp.483-585, No.112. Triumph of the Virgin, Acc.No. 46.117, pp.514-520, figs 1&2.