A Flemish large-leaf (Feuilles-des-Choux) tapestry, Enghien or Grammont, third quarter 16th century woven with an exuberant ground of large-leaves interspersed with small insects and birds, with a balustrade across the foreground supporting large birds and two small figures holding fruit and a small shield respectively, with a large central foreground plant, and two similar in each corner of the four-sided border, woven with vases, fruit and flowers, against a tobacco and saffron ground, with blue outer selvedge, approximately 344cm. high, 395cm. wide; 11ft. 3in., 12ft. 11in.
A Flemish large-leaf (Feuilles-des-Choux) tapestry, Enghien or Grammont, third quarter 16th century woven with an exuberant ground of large-leaves interspersed with small insects and birds, with a balustrade across the foreground supporting large birds and two small figures holding fruit and a small shield respectively, with a large central foreground plant, and two similar in each corner of the four-sided border, woven with vases, fruit and flowers, against a tobacco and saffron ground, with blue outer selvedge, approximately 344cm. high, 395cm. wide; 11ft. 3in., 12ft. 11in.
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