Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
Property from an English Private Collection
A Flemish mythological tapestry, probably Antwerp, early 18th century
Lot Closed
May 18, 02:19 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
Property from an English Private Collection
A Flemish mythological tapestry, probably Antwerp, early 18th century
woven with a group of figures including three females, one playing a lute, and a young man with its hound and falcon handing over a small bird to a seated figure, surrounded by exuberant flowering plants and formal gardens and lake and fountain, within a four-sided exuberant flowering border incorporating trophies, flaming urns, lambrequins and small birds; reduced in height and width
approximately 228cm. high, 323cm. wide; 7ft. 5 3/4 in., 10ft. 7 1/8 in.
Mythological tapestries with small groups of figures in extensive landscape settings and borders with foliage and including trophies and motifs against brown grounds were used by Brussels, Lille and Antwerp workshops at the turn of the 18th century. There are comparable tapestries with the same border type and elements as that of the present tapestry, with the distinctive tobacco brown ground and French ornamental style, a border style considered typical of Antwerp workshop production in the late 17th century. For example a weaving depicting ‘Perseus fighting Phineus’, circa 1700, Antwerp, workshop of Jacob van der Goten (Magdeburg, Kulturhistorisches Museum), and further discussion of other Antwerp mythological tapestries, see Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestries, 1999, pp.255-265, illustrated pp.260-261. Another comparable tapestry, with the same corner border shell motif design, is a weaving of The Hunt of Diana, circa 1700, Antwerp (Lyon, Musee des Arts decorative Inv: MAD 1441), see Ingrid de Meuter and Martine Vanwelden, Tapisseries d’Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle, 1999, pp.220-228.