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Lot 81TP

A Franco-Flemish mid-16th Century Allegorical Tapestry 320cm x 317cm

5 April 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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A Franco-Flemish mid-16th Century Allegorical Tapestry
Woven in wools and silks, depicting the 'Garden of Love' with figures of Sensual Pleasure, Venus, Self-Love and Labour each dressed in contemporary courtly attire and seated at a cloth draped table, with a recumbent female figure to the foreground and the same allegorical figures being ushered into a chateau by Labour in the background, amidst a rural landscape with a city in the distance, within a fruiting floral and foliate border,
320cm x 317cm

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