Lot 423
423
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 423-425)
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks depicting a scene from the legend of Phaeton, with Horae before the chariot in a mountainous woody landscape with a seascape beyond, the background with Helios and his son Phaeton and Aurora with the four Horae each bearing an hour-glass, the borders woven with putti supporting flowering cornucopiae, owls, birds and foliate scrolls on a blue ground, restorations, the borders cut and some reweaving, second half 16th Century

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A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks depicting a scene from the legend of Phaeton, with Horae before the chariot in a mountainous woody landscape with a seascape beyond, the background with Helios and his son Phaeton and Aurora with the four Horae each bearing an hour-glass, the borders woven with putti supporting flowering cornucopiae, owls, birds and foliate scrolls on a blue ground, restorations, the borders cut and some reweaving, second half 16th Century
164½in. x 155½in. (418cm. x 394cm.)
Provenance
The Counts Karolyi, Budapest
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 4 December 1980, lot 152

Lot Essay

Two panels from the same series, illustrating subsequent scenes in the story, were sold in these Rooms 13 December 1979, lots 174 and 175.
A set of eight tapestries by Jan Leyniers in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art are woven from the same cartoon but the width is reduced and the composition enlarged in scale. There is a set of six imilar in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna by Matthias Prevoost and Andreas van Dries.

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