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Lot 64TP

A Flemish Game Park tapestry
Circa 1600 386cm x 214cm

5 July 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,400 inc. premium

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A Flemish Game Park tapestry

Circa 1600
Woven in wools and silks, with courtly figures reading music, playing instruments to the foreground and a few hunting game in a wooded landscape, a castle surrounded by a moat and formal gardens visible in the middle distance, the whole lacking border, a width repaired section to the left side, lined, surrounded by later caramel outer slip,
386cm x 214cm

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Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 26 Jan 2000, Lot 104.
Chawton House.

The presence of hunting tapestries, such as the present lot, in noble homes represented a 'cultural performance,' according to Wyld. In Medieval and early modern Europe, the right to hunt depended on the ownership of land. Skill in hunting signified prowess on the battlefield. Hunting 'a force' was deemed the most noble way to hunt and usually involved the pursuit of a stag or a boar with hounds.

Literature
H.Wyld, The Art of Tapestry, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2022.

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