An English mythological tapestry, Mortlake, London 17th century finely woven with a standing figure of young man in classical dress and cloak covering silver torso cuirass, with bow and quiver of arrows, with faint halo around his curly blonde hair, an anvil and hammer visible in the bottom right corner with branches of moss covered tree above, with sparse autumnal coloured leaves, in the left background seated in the woodland is an embracing male and female, set within a landscape extending into the background with buildings on the horizon, clouds in the sky reveal a chariot with a standing winged cupid crossing the sky; within distinctive architectural border woven with side caryatid term figures with a male satyr head and torso to the left and the female on the right, both supported upon an exaggerated corbel with enveloping acanthus leaf, with pendant ribbon held fruit swags and the architectural plinth base and hoof feet, with top and bottom horizontal narrow borders with gold and red egg-and-dart motif with blue insets, all woven against a blue ground; main panel reduced width Approximately: 305cm. high, 257cm. wide; 10ft., 8ft. 5in.
An English mythological tapestry, Mortlake, London 17th century finely woven with a standing figure of young man in classical dress and cloak covering silver torso cuirass, with bow and quiver of arrows, with faint halo around his curly blonde hair, an anvil and hammer visible in the bottom right corner with branches of moss covered tree above, with sparse autumnal coloured leaves, in the left background seated in the woodland is an embracing male and female, set within a landscape extending into the background with buildings on the horizon, clouds in the sky reveal a chariot with a standing winged cupid crossing the sky; within distinctive architectural border woven with side caryatid term figures with a male satyr head and torso to the left and the female on the right, both supported upon an exaggerated corbel with enveloping acanthus leaf, with pendant ribbon held fruit swags and the architectural plinth base and hoof feet, with top and bottom horizontal narrow borders with gold and red egg-and-dart motif with blue insets, all woven against a blue ground; main panel reduced width Approximately: 305cm. high, 257cm. wide; 10ft., 8ft. 5in.
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