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Lot 21
Sale 6447 - Woven Art: A Private Collection of Tapestries and Carpets
Oct 30, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$30,000 -
50,000
Lot Description
A Brussels Historical Tapestry from the Series The Story of Cyrus the Great
Attributed to Jan Van Tieghem, after a design attributed to Maerten van Heemskerck, Third Quarter 16th Century
woven in wool and silk, depicting ‘King Astyage recognizing the young Cyrus’, with the enthroned King Astyage beneath a draped canopy, before him a seated attendant holding a writing tablet, to the left the young Cyrus with the shepherd Mithridates within an elaborate four-sided border with alternating allegorical figures, wild beasts in landscape vignettes and scrollwork cartouches enclosing mythological scenes, interspersed with strapwork vases, putti and grotesques, the lower border with Latin inscription, FAMA CONSTAT BELLUM and REGNUM AUTEM IVSTICIA ET LIBERALITATE, within further narrow scrolling ribbon and stylized floral motif borders.
13 feet 2 inches x 14 feet 9 inches.
Property from a Private Family Trust
This lot is located in Chicago.