AN ANTWERP MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY Late 17th Century Woven in wools and silks, depicting a sacrificial procession with a white garland-hung bull being led towareds a flaming altar with a statue of a youth holding a torch, the bull surrounded by music-making youths and priests, behind them a king wearing a turban before a kneeling maiden and various attendants, the background with large buildings and a park landscape, the top with floral garlands and within an egg-and-dart border and a later cream and brown oute slip, areas of reweaving and patching, reduced in height at the bottom and in width to the left, lacking borders, a patch to the lower right cut and re-attached 8 ft. 3 in. x 11 ft. 7 in. (252 cm. x 353 cm.)
AN ANTWERP MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY Late 17th Century Woven in wools and silks, depicting a sacrificial procession with a white garland-hung bull being led towareds a flaming altar with a statue of a youth holding a torch, the bull surrounded by music-making youths and priests, behind them a king wearing a turban before a kneeling maiden and various attendants, the background with large buildings and a park landscape, the top with floral garlands and within an egg-and-dart border and a later cream and brown oute slip, areas of reweaving and patching, reduced in height at the bottom and in width to the left, lacking borders, a patch to the lower right cut and re-attached 8 ft. 3 in. x 11 ft. 7 in. (252 cm. x 353 cm.)
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