A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENARDE, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools, depicting 'Jacob and his family traveling in Egypt', set in a landscape with additional figures travelling with them, including a female on horseback and distant camels with distant hills and town walls, within an elaborate strapwork, foliate and flowering border, each corner with a clothed term figure emerging from a strapwork support and further masks and swags and crouching animals with human heads, within further narrow inner and outer stylised curled ribbon and stylised star and geometric motifs respectively, all on a saffron ground, with areas of reweaving and restorations
88 in. (224 cm.) high; 174 in. (444 cm.) wide
A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENARDE, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools, depicting 'Jacob and his family traveling in Egypt', set in a landscape with additional figures travelling with them, including a female on horseback and distant camels with distant hills and town walls, within an elaborate strapwork, foliate and flowering border, each corner with a clothed term figure emerging from a strapwork support and further masks and swags and crouching animals with human heads, within further narrow inner and outer stylised curled ribbon and stylised star and geometric motifs respectively, all on a saffron ground, with areas of reweaving and restorations
88 in. (224 cm.) high; 174 in. (444 cm.) wide
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