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.).
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.).