TAPESTRY BORDER FRAGMENT, BRUSSELS, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF GERARD PEEMANS
17TH CENTURY
£378
Auction: Select Property from Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Description
with a cartouche depicting a winged putto mask, rams' masks and a lion's pelt, inscribed 'HISTORIA TITI ET/ VESPASIANI, with modern edging and lining
Dimensions
53cm high, 94cm wide
Provenance
Karen and the late Marc Ellington, Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire
Footnote
Note: A tapestry with the same medallion and presumably from the eight part series of the Story of Titus and Vespasian, after Charles Poerson, sold Druot, 10 October, 2023, lot 12; and another tapestry from the series depicting the Massacre at Jerusalem is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.1243.