Live Auction 2350500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
A FLEMISH GAME PARK TAPESTRY
Lot 389 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOT 389)

A FLEMISH GAME PARK TAPESTRY

MID-16TH CENTURY, ORIGINALLY PART OF A LARGER TAPESTRY

Closed22 October 2010

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A FLEMISH GAME PARK TAPESTRY
MID-16TH CENTURY, ORIGINALLY PART OF A LARGER TAPESTRY
Depicting two cranes in a river attacked by a dog, with a serpent and lion attacking a further beast, with courtly hunters, a wooded landscape with a palace in the distance, with later green guard border, reduced in size, minor reweaving and patching
96 in. high x 114 in. wide (244 cm. x 290 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 May 1997, lot 207.

Specialist note

The falconry subject of this tapestry is unusual for 16th Century game park motifs as most Flemish tapestries of this nature concentrated on hunts of land game. A game park tapestry depicting a dog in a nearly identical pose as the dog in the lower right corner of this tapestry was offered from Houghton by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Christie's, London, 8 December 1994, lot 70.