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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
Lot 61

A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT

LATE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE REGION

Closed6 March 2012

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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
LATE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE REGION
Woven in wools and silks and depicting a deer hunt with various courtly hunters on horseback and deer hounds within a wooded landscape, a town beyond
105 x 104 in. (266 x 264 cm.)

Sir Philip Sassoon Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire, recorded in the corridor in 1939
Sold anonymously, Christie's London, 14 November 2002, Lot 187

Specialist note

A stag hunt tapestry that is based on the same composition for the central hunter with the stag is illustrated in P.-F. Bertrand, D. and P. Chevalier, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988, p. 32.