A SWISS RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY

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£ 20 000
Auction dateClassic
23.07.2020 11:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 376485
Lot 11 | A SWISS RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY
A SWISS RELIGIOUS TAPESTRY

CIRCA 1531

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

41 ½ in. (106 cm.) high; 44 ½ in. (113 cm.) wide

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