A BRUSSELS HISTORICAL TAPESTRY By Gerard Peemans second half 17th Century, the designs attributed to Justus van Egmont Woven in wools and silks, depicting The Story of Zenobia with Aurelius to the centre on a fallen horse and injured by an arrow through his left leg, to the left with a soldier on horseback beating back a further soldier with a spear and flag, to the right with a soldier supporting the general and the winged figure of Victory holding a palm-leaf and a laurel-wreath above the general's head, within elaborate borders with floral trails and martial trophies, to top and bottom with putti and the bottom with a cartouche centred by an espagnolette mask, the top with a further cartouche inscribed '.AVR;ANTE PALMIRAM TELOLAEDITVR', within a brown outer slip with the Brussels' town mark and weaver's signiture 'G.PEENAEM', reweaving and patching 158 in. x 124 in. (402 cm. x 315 cm.)
A BRUSSELS HISTORICAL TAPESTRY By Gerard Peemans second half 17th Century, the designs attributed to Justus van Egmont Woven in wools and silks, depicting The Story of Zenobia with Aurelius to the centre on a fallen horse and injured by an arrow through his left leg, to the left with a soldier on horseback beating back a further soldier with a spear and flag, to the right with a soldier supporting the general and the winged figure of Victory holding a palm-leaf and a laurel-wreath above the general's head, within elaborate borders with floral trails and martial trophies, to top and bottom with putti and the bottom with a cartouche centred by an espagnolette mask, the top with a further cartouche inscribed '.AVR;ANTE PALMIRAM TELOLAEDITVR', within a brown outer slip with the Brussels' town mark and weaver's signiture 'G.PEENAEM', reweaving and patching 158 in. x 124 in. (402 cm. x 315 cm.)
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