A SWISS RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY

Lot 49
23.10.2024 18:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 10 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1309777
Lot 49 | A SWISS RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Woven in metal-thread, silk and wool, depicting the Holy Kindred, centred by St. Anne seated with the Virgin and Child represented as children on her lap and St. John the Baptist with a sheep before her, to the left with Mary Salome with her children St. John the Evangelist in her arm and James Major before her, to the right with Mary Cleophas with her child James Minor in her arms and with Jude, Simon and Joseph to the foreground, within an open landscape with vases of flowers and a foliate scrolling border with beige outer slip, the border to top and base later, dated to the main field '1331' although altered, and with coat-of-arms to the lower right of the main field
411/2 in. (106 cm.) high; 441/2 in. (113 cm.) wide
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
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