A silk and wool tapestry depicting Susanna and the Elders. - image-1

Lot 478 Dα

A silk and wool tapestry depicting Susanna and the Elders.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 14:00 - Jewellery, Furniture, Objects of Vertu, Boxes, Portrait Miniatures
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 9.300 € (incl. premium)
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A silk and wool tapestry depicting Susanna and the Elders.

Weaver's mark ligatured ISTA. Cut and shut beneath the upper border, partially worn, repaired, partially lined, severe soiling. 308 x 378 cm.
Audenarde / Oudenaarde, 1st quarter 17th C

Literature

A piece with an identical weaver's mark, border and the next scene in the series showing Susanna surrounded by servants and the two Elders in cat.: Tapisseries d´Audenarde, Tielt 1999, p. 194. A further tapestry with the same mark depicting the conversion of Paul in the The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (in: Bennett, Five Centuries of Tapestry, San Francisco 1992, no. 50).