拍品 420
420
The Property of
A LILLE TENIERS TAPESTRY woven in verdure tones, blues and reds with rustic figures grouped in a clearing, one playing ninepins, others smoking pipes, drinking and talking with farmhouses on the left and a carriage in the middle foreground, in a picture-frame border, signed G. WERNIERS L F and with a fleur-de-lys, early 18th Century, the lower border partially replaced

细节
A LILLE TENIERS TAPESTRY woven in verdure tones, blues and reds with rustic figures grouped in a clearing, one playing ninepins, others smoking pipes, drinking and talking with farmhouses on the left and a carriage in the middle foreground, in a picture-frame border, signed G. WERNIERS L F and with a fleur-de-lys, early 18th Century, the lower border partially replaced
10ft. 6in. x 10ft. (319 x 304cm.)

拍品专文

Guillaume Werniers (d.1738).
A set of nine Lille Teniers tapestries by G. Werniers, without borders, was in the collection of Basil Dighton. This included another example of this scene which is illustrated in H. C. Marillier, A Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 52 (b).