拍品 407
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A BRUGES TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks depicting Astrology beside a celestial globe, flanked by a seated figure in Roman dress and a putto with an eagle, the background with Apollo in his chariot, the borders woven with strapwork, putti and vases of flowers on a black ground, centred by an oval cartouche inscribed COELUM.SPECULANDO.TERRAM.ET.AEQUOR.ARARE.DOCET, late 17th Century

细节
A BRUGES TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks depicting Astrology beside a celestial globe, flanked by a seated figure in Roman dress and a putto with an eagle, the background with Apollo in his chariot, the borders woven with strapwork, putti and vases of flowers on a black ground, centred by an oval cartouche inscribed COELUM.SPECULANDO.TERRAM.ET.AEQUOR.ARARE.DOCET, late 17th Century
12 ft. 4 in. x 11 ft. 4in. (376 x 346cm.)

拍品专文

Another example of this tapestry but with different borders and dated 1673 in the Musées communeaux, Bruges was exhibited Bruges et la Tapisserie, Bruges-Mouscrou 1987, G. Delmarcel, E. Duverger, Catalogue, No.71, p.481. The composition is taken from an engraving by Cornelius Schut (1597-1655) and the cartoon is in the Rubenshuis, Antwerp.