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FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ANTWERP
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A PAIR OF FLEMISH VERDURE TAPESTRIES
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ANTWERP
Each woven in wools and silks, depicting exotic birds including parrots pheasants and a tucan, within a wooded landscape, one with a harbour scene with moored ships beyond, the other with classical ruins, each within a foliate strapwork border and blue and yellow outer slip, each reduced in height by folding under a circa 2 in. section along the upper edge of the field, with minor losses to the silks
12 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft. 5 in. (380 cm. x 286 cm.);
12 ft. 4 in. x 7 ft. 6 in. (374 cm. x 228 cm.) (2)
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ANTWERP
Each woven in wools and silks, depicting exotic birds including parrots pheasants and a tucan, within a wooded landscape, one with a harbour scene with moored ships beyond, the other with classical ruins, each within a foliate strapwork border and blue and yellow outer slip, each reduced in height by folding under a circa 2 in. section along the upper edge of the field, with minor losses to the silks
12 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft. 5 in. (380 cm. x 286 cm.);
12 ft. 4 in. x 7 ft. 6 in. (374 cm. x 228 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Probably acquired by Julius Drewe as part of the contents of Wadhurst, Sussex, in 1898; and thence by descent.
Special notice
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