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Lot 1013 - A210 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 19. September 2024, 02.00 PM

VERDURE (TAPESTRY WITH A LANDSCAPE SUBJECT) "FORÊT SAUVAGE À GRANDES FEUILLES"

Probably Enghien or Oudenaarde, 16th century.
The tapestry on offer features depictions of large cabbage leaves and a rich vegetation with birds, a stag, two leopards, an animal fight and a landscape with a village, a church, ruins and a river with a fishing boat in the background. Border trimmed and later.
250 × 220 cm.

Provenance:
- Auction Stuker, Berne, 10-20 November 1965, Lot No. 4422 (according to a copy of the invoice).
- Walter A. Staehelin Antiquitäten, Muri b. Berne, acquired at the above auction.
- Private collection, Arlesheim, acquired from the above gallery.
- Private collection, Basel.

CHF 15 000 / 20 000 | (€ 15 460 / 20 620)


Sold for CHF 26 250 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.