A Flemish Game-Park Tapestry

Woven in wools and silks, depicting a lion and a lioness surrounded by hunters on foot and on horseback, within an Arcadian park landscape with exotic trees and a ruin in the distance, the foreground with cranes, lizards and parrots, the border with a trellised and floral band and with playing putti, the sides and lower border decorated with maidens, the top centred by a strapwork cartouche flanked by putti, all within a border of scrolling panels, and a later brown outer slip, with two restored vertical cuts to right hand side of field

Estimate:£26,000

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