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Lot 23

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$15,000 - 25,000

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A Brussels Pastoral Tapestry
Second Quarter 17th Century

woven in wool and silk, depicting a wooded landscape, dominated in the right hand foreground by a an old tree, two small figures in the left background, a castle hidden in the trees beyond, within elaborate architectural borders, flanked to both sides with winged putti suspending fruiting garlands from pilasters and standing on relief-carved column plinths, the top border centered by a grisaille panel in a scrolled surround, the lower window-ledge border with the Brussels town mark, the right hand blue outer slip with an unidentified weaver's cypher ‘S.D.A.E.(?)’
Height 11 feet 1 inch x width 8 feet 6 inches.

Property from a Private Family Trust

This lot is located in Chicago.

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