AN ENGLISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Lot 140

AN ENGLISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

MORTLAKE OR SOHO, LATE 17TH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed2 November 2011

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GBP 12,500

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AN ENGLISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
MORTLAKE OR SOHO, LATE 17TH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting 'Vertumnus and Pomona' from the series 'Ovid's Metamorphis', with two women and a child in a formal garden landscape, the elder seated on the steps of a classical building, a fountain in the centre foreground, a church and village in the distance, within an egg-and-dart border and brown outer slip
175 1/2 x 81 in. (446 x 206 cm.).