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.