AUDENARDE Beautiful panel of tapestry from Audenarde... Lot 34

AUDENARDE Beautiful panel of tapestry from Audenarde (Flanders), from the end of the 15th-beginning of the 16th century. With wolf and boar, wolf-hawk and Phoenix. Border with compositions of sprays of flowers, foliage and fruits. In wool and silk. Height : 310 cm, Width : 255 cm. Beautiful freshness of colors. Some restorations of maintenance. A tapestry of the same series with a similar border is reproduced in the work of J. Boccara "Ames de laine et de Soie" This one is called "Feuille de choux au Taureau" where we see an Auroch and a Phoenix. Oudenaarde became famous for these "greens" and this reputation has remained attached to the town, even though other subjects were also produced there. The cartoons of the "verdures" whose bottom was filled with plants with large leaves - probably acanthus leaves and not cabbage leaves - and populated with animals and birds of all kinds, were generally used in turn and according to the availability of the looms and the fluctuation of the prices, in the centres of Enghien, Gramont and Oudenaarde, very close to each other. Very often these tapestries were populated with animals as well noble, as fantastic and even legendary. Documentation : Jacqueline BOCCARA " Ames de laine et de Soie " at the Editions d'ART MONELLE HAYOT , Saint-Just- En-Chaussée, 1988