Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Wool and silk, 17th or 18th century, France or Belgium, likely reworked from a larger tapestry, with sections skillfully patched together, featuring a large bird with wings outstretched and standing in a verdant landscape with a small castle in the distance, plain two-tone brown border, wide burlap strapping sewn to back for stabilization and hanging purposes.
4 ft. 11 in. x 6 ft. 4 in.
Many old sections of skillful re-weaving; repairs; fading; brittleness to some fibers; areas of exposed warp; fraying.
