woven in wool and silk, depicting the element ‘Earth’, with an architectural strapwork pergola surmounted by a vase bearing a scrollwork cartouche inscribed 'TERRA,' flanked by seated Bacchic figures, within the trompe l’oeil pergola suspending a canopy, beneath which sit three drinking figures, flanked to both sides by pilasters, stairs carrying figures bringing further food and drink, to the sides balconies with musicians, in the lower foreground dead game, vegetables, fruit, bottles and barrels of wine, representing the spoils of the element Earth, on a field of elaborate strapwork decorated with scrolling vine, flowers and animals, within a simulated picture frame border, the brown outer slip with the Brussels town mark and with the weaver’s initials ‘I.D.VOS’.
Height 12 feet 9 1/2 inches x width 12 feet 4 inches.