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Lot 29TP

A Flemish verdure tapestry
Late 16th/early 17th century 313cm x 307cm

25 October 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £10,000

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A Flemish verdure tapestry

Late 16th/early 17th century
woven in wools and silks, depicting Rinaldo and Armida in a garden with a pagoda to the background, the border with auricular and strapwork cartouche decorated with wing flamed torcheres and landscapes divided by floral bouquets, reduced in width with areas of reworking and later velvet border to sides.


313cm x 307cm

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Provenance
By repute Count Hans Gotthard Wachtmeister (1874-1950) owned the present lot and thence by descent to his daughter who sold the tapestry to the current owner.

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