Tablecloth of a hunting service in historiated linen damask, - Lot 270

Lot n° 270
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Tablecloth of a hunting service in historiated linen damask, - Lot 270
Tablecloth of a hunting service in historiated linen damask, Courtrai, 17th century. Rare model called "à cavalière, au grand palmier et au globe crucifère". Fine weaving with a silky touch, Renaissance design presenting from top to bottom a stepped fountain, a pavoisé castle, a tree loaded with fruit and a palm tree and on either side a rider holding in her fist a falcon, unicorns facing and hunters armed with guns and stakes stalking hares, deer and boars. Borders of foliage populated with birds, (a small hole, some wear and tear and dirt without gravity). H. 214 - L. 210 cm. RMH Bibliography : Prinet (M.) Le damas de lin historié, Fondation Abegg, Office du livre de Fribourg, 1982. p.222-223.
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