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Table Cover

1680-1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Table cover tapestry-woven in wool and silk in many shades of colour on a woollen warp. The central cartouche has a large wreath of various fruits and a scene showing a snake biting Eurydice while she and her companions are gathering flowers beneath a tree to the right of a large fountain. Stems of flowers and butterflies are scattered on the dark blue ground outside the wreath.

The border, edged with two imitation mouldings, is woven in shades from yellow to maroon and contains larger sprays of flowers stemming from the corners on a rust-red ground. In the centre of each side is a cartouche, given a three-dimensional effect by shading of pink, brown, maroon and mustard. These cartouches also contain mythological scenes of Leander swimming the Hellespont, Daphne and Apollo, Pan and Syrinx, and Narcissus.

Both figures and flowers are finely woven, but to rather stiff designs, with strong hatching. The colours are still fresh and sharp. There are 19 to 21 warp threads to the inch, eight to nine to the centimetre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tapestry-woven wool and silk
Brief description
Table cover tapestry-woven in wool and silk, Netherlands, 1680-1700
Physical description
Table cover tapestry-woven in wool and silk in many shades of colour on a woollen warp. The central cartouche has a large wreath of various fruits and a scene showing a snake biting Eurydice while she and her companions are gathering flowers beneath a tree to the right of a large fountain. Stems of flowers and butterflies are scattered on the dark blue ground outside the wreath.

The border, edged with two imitation mouldings, is woven in shades from yellow to maroon and contains larger sprays of flowers stemming from the corners on a rust-red ground. In the centre of each side is a cartouche, given a three-dimensional effect by shading of pink, brown, maroon and mustard. These cartouches also contain mythological scenes of Leander swimming the Hellespont, Daphne and Apollo, Pan and Syrinx, and Narcissus.

Both figures and flowers are finely woven, but to rather stiff designs, with strong hatching. The colours are still fresh and sharp. There are 19 to 21 warp threads to the inch, eight to nine to the centimetre.
Dimensions
  • Weight: 13kg
  • Top edge width: 1855mm
  • Bottom edge width: 1845mm
  • Proper right edge length: 1630mm
  • Proper left edge length: 1620mm
Weight including roller
Object history
Formerly in Castle Zoelen.
Collection
Accession number
T.70-1966

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Record createdJuly 20, 2004
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