A BRUSSELS BAROQUE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

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A BRUSSELS BAROQUE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY, BY HEINRICH REYDAMS

From the Story of Judith and depicting the ornately clad Judith being brought before Holofernes by his soldiers, the border woven with fruiting garlands alternating with scallop shells and lions' masks at the angles, the upper central border inscribed JUDITH FUGITIVA HOLOFERNEM ASTUTE DECIPIT ET SPECIOSAM VICTORIAM PROMITTIT, the selvedge woven with the Brussels townmark and the weavers' mark H. REYDAMS-12ft. 9in. x 11ft. 1in. (3m. 85cm. x 3m. 30cm.)
来源
Sotheby's Monaco, 23 February 1986, lot 810