British & Continental Auction | December 6, 2024
Fri, Dec 6, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1539
Continental Armorial Wool Tapestry
Estimate: $18,000 - $24,000
Starting Bid
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Italian or Dutch, early 17th century, centered with a large armorial crest (per pale with dexter argent, three bars azure; sinister chequy argent and azure with single fleur-de-lis; bordure gyronny with pairs of five trefoils and towers), surmounted by a plumed helmet with acanthus leaf surround, foreground shows a trellised garden, statuary, and estate houses, the background a chapel, orchards, and mountains, escutcheons at four corners, trefoils, stripes, and a tower, elaborate border with multiple scenes, at left, forest with boars, stags, and squirrels, at right, phoenix and crowned griffon, upper border depicts a sun and moon with game birds in flight, lower border shows a siren with mirror in the waves, flanked by scaled fish, 133 x 129 in. (11 ft. 1 in. x 10 ft. 9 in.)
Provenance: Before July 1921, acquired by Michael Drecier of New York, NY, February 20-21, 1925;
Purchased at The Anderson Galleries, Furniture, Tapestries, Antique Bronze & Marble Sculpture, Rare Old Velvets, Brocades &
Embroidered Fabrics, Antique Persian & Chinese Rugs, Chinese Porcelains, Paintings & Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Michael Dreicer, lot 280 by Quill Jones of New York;
1932, purchased from Quill Jones by the Brooklyn Museum;
Property from the Brooklyn Museum
Publication History:
Furniture, Tapestries, Antique Bronze & Marble Sculpture, Rare Old Velvets, Brocades & Embroidered Fabrics, Antique Persian & Chinese Rugs, Chinese Porcelains, Paintings & Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Michael Dreicer, New York, To Be Sold by Order of Mrs. Jardine Bell Whyte, London, England (Formerly Mrs. Michael Dreicer) [and others]. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1925. lot 280. “List of Accessions.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 16, no. 1 (January 1929): 34.
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Before July 1921, acquired by Michael Drecier of New York, NY, February 20-21, 1925;
Purchased at The Anderson Galleries, Furniture, Tapestries, Antique Bronze & Marble Sculpture, Rare Old Velvets, Brocades &
Embroidered Fabrics, Antique Persian & Chinese Rugs, Chinese Porcelains, Paintings & Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Michael Dreicer, lot 280 by Quill Jones of New York;
1932, purchased from Quill Jones by the Brooklyn Museum;
Property from the Brooklyn Museum
extensive fading and scattered losses to ground throughout, later binding between border and panel, soiling, probable restorations throughout, later binding along border edges, grey wool strips sewn to top and bottom edges of obverse for reinforcement
