A Flemish Landscape Tapestry, Lille, possibly workshop of Werniers first half 18th century

woven with a woodland and foreground of exuberant flowering plants, two birds and a distant formal garden, within a four-sided floral and trophy filled border, on a brown ground 

Princess Blaceflor Boncompagni Ludovisi (1891-1972), married Prince Andrea Boncompagni Ludovisi 1924), Via Boncompagni 18, Rome, Italy
Thence by descent

Overall measurements: 532cm across the top, 532cm across the bottom, 323cm up the left side, 321cm up the right side. In very good past professionally restored condition (so there are repairs and some reweaving, but it is in stable condition, clean and ready to hang, and to last another generation in the correct conditions). Within a decorative border of the same date, but possibly associated (as very obvious brown ground in the corners), and with later inner and outer banded narrow borders. Lovely and very decorative tapestry. An exuberant extension to a room of an outside landscape. Charming details to the foliage.
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