BRUSSELS, CIRCA 1600, 1600

• Woven in wools and silks, each depicting a classical pergola of Renaissance architectural design supported by columns hung with flowers, the largest tapestry with a pergola of three bays, another of two bays and two of one bay, each pergola centred by classical vases filled with abundant bouquets of flowers, the background of each showing rural landscapes with towns and hunting and pastoral scenes, within a border with repeating bunches of flowers with a mask to each angle, within a blue guardslip, three tapestries with unidentified and partially legible weaver's mark, three tapestries with Brussels town mark 'B.B'
• 103,0 x139,0in (261.6 x 353.1 cm)