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Lot 53
Sale 4237 - English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
May 17, 2016
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$1,700
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Flemish pictorial verdure tapestry fragment 17th/18th century
Depicting a rolling landscape with two courtly gentleman in the foreground protecting two ladies in the distance; reworked with later Aubusson upper section centered by an heraldic crest of a kicking leg, probably for the Gilman family of Glynilson, Wales; the whole bordered by a cream band and blue selvage; together with a pair of Renaissance style frieze tapestries depicting allegories of abundance. (3).
H: 59, W: 51 in.