A BRUSSELS BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
A BRUSSELS BIBLICAL TAPESTRY

LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A BRUSSELS BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
Late 16th early 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a king seated on a throne with lion supports and a prisoner surrounded by soldiers before him, to the right with two elders and a dog, within a border with floral sprays and figures supporting cornucopiae and urns among the foliage and with landscape cartouches, within a blue outer slip, the main field reduced in height to the bottom and the bottom border lacking, areas of reweaving and patching
10 ft. 7 in. x 14 ft. 5 in. (322 cm.x 439 cm.)