A Flemish historical tapestry,The Story of Julius Caesar (5).probably 16th century, depicting Mark Antony offering to Caesar the royal diadem, unidentified weaver's mark lower right,11ft 2in high x 15ft 3in wide (339 x 464cm)Provenance: By repute the Pallavicino Family, by descent to Marchese Serra, Palazzo Verde, Genoa;from whom purchased by J Pierpont Morgan and gifted to Walter Hayes Burns;Christie's North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 509.Traditionally in BC44, Julius Caesar, by then possessing the supreme power of royalty, wished to obtain the title of king. Mark Antony accordingly offered him the diadem in public at the festival of the Lupercalia, but Caesar, sensing that this was not favourably received by the people, declined the honour.
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A Flemish historical tapestry,The Story of Julius Caesar (6),probably 16th century, depicting the meeting of Caesar and an eastern potentate, perhaps the submission of Pharaces after the battle of Zela, unidentified weaver's mark lower right,11ft 2in high x 11ft wide (339 x 335cm)Provenance: By repute the Pallavicino Family, by descent to Marchese Serra, Palazzo Verde, Genoa;from whom purchased by J Pierpont Morgan and gifted to Walter Hayes Burns;Christie's North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 510.It was after his defeat of Pharaces in 47BC that Caesar informed the senate of his victory in the words 'Veni, Vidi, Vici'.
A Flemish tapestry,The Story of Romulus and Remus (7),late 16th/early 17th century, attributed to Jakob Geubels the Elder, depicting Romulus presenting to his grandfather, Numitor, King of Alba Longa, the severed head of his usurper brother, Amulius, shown in a four-sided compartmental floral border, with illustrations of Latin proverbs and allegorical and mythological figures,size approximately 10ft 5in high x 12ft 6in wide (317 x 380cm)Provenance: Christie's, London.An almost identical tapestry, with the Brussels town mark and weaver's mark identified as Jakob Geubels I (Gobel: Part I weaver's marks, p.3), was sold at Sotheby's London, 26 June 1981, lot 9. In both examples, the composition is cut to the right of the tent. Another similar, but later, version in a border of fruit and flowers, and with the figure of Numitor placed at the centre of the tapestry, is illustrated by Anna G Bennett, 'Five Centuries of Tapestry', 1976, no. 40, dated as c.1635.
Lots 312 and 313Two important Brussels tapestries from the 'History of Venus' series, in well preserved colours, within broad naturalistic borders woven with animals, bunches of fruit, birds and flowers.A Brussel mythological tapestry,The Story of Venus: Venus disclosing to Diomedes the conduct of his wife Aegialia, probably mid-16th century, after Bernard van Orley, possibly from the workshop of Guasparo di Bartolommeo Papini after Alessandro Allori,300 x 650cm approximatelyPanel VI of the Madrid set corresponds to the present tapestry, but without the figure of the fallen warrior with Venus(?) standing behind him to the right. ('In the Madrid example the right hand portion has been cut away so that Cupid is aiming at a purely conjectural target', Country Life, 20 January, 1934, North Mymms Park: II). It also has a more detailed landscape background and lacks the figures of mermen riding on sea monsters. The title now given to this tapestry is the same as that given to the example in Madrid. This is also illustrated in 'Gobel Wandteppiche', Leipzig, 1923, Part I, Vol. II, abb.98.
A Brussels mythological tapestry,The Story of Venus: Venus saves Aeneas from the wrath of Diomedes, probably mid-16th century, after Bernard van Orley,370 x 392cm Panel V of the Madrid set corresponds to the present tapestry, but without the figure of Venus and her pursuer seen in the background.
A Florentine allegorical tapestry: spring, early 17th century, after Alessandro Allori, with three figures singing by a fountain, a pool in the foreground and a table on the right in the open air beneath trees, with figures around seated and talking, in a broad auricular scrolled border with figures, animals, fruit and flowers centring on a smoking brazier, 13ft 3ins high 16ft wide (403 x 488cm)Provenance: By repute the Pallavicino Family, by descent to Marchese Serra, Palazzo Verde, Genoa;from whom purchased by J Pierpont Morgan and gifted to Walter Hayes Burns;Christie's North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 492.Literature: Hermann Schmitz - 'Bildteppiche', Berlin, 1919, p. 318, pl. 157 and Heinrich Gobel - 'Wandteppiche, Part II', vol. I Leipzig, 1928, p. 389.
A tapestry panel, emblematic of autumn,late 17th century, Mortlake or Hatton Garden, London, woven with a vineyard scene in verdure tones heightened with red, the grapes being trodden in a large barrel with gatherers coming forward with baskets and pickers on the right, overhung by trees with buildings in a landscape behind,9ft 2ins high x 8ft 4ins wide (279 x 256cm).H C Marillier points out that the Mortlake Months, to which this panel belongs, are probably based on the Brussels suite of the Months by Gilles de Leyniers. The Mymms panel was probably part of a double panel representing two months and is very close to the left side of the panel of October from the complete Mortlake Months at Melbury House, Dorset (H C Marillier, 'English Tapestries of the Eighteenth Century', 1930, pl.23).Provenance: Christie's North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 491.
A Florentine allegorical tapestry, emblematic of winter, early 17th century, after Alessandro Allori, depicting a tapestry-hung room with a canopied bed and figures in domestic pursuits on the right, a peasant bringing in faggots to a kitchen on the left, the broad sculptural border woven with reclining figures of night and day, figures emblematic of the four seasons, bearded satyrs, a log-filled lion mask furnace and grotesque sea scolls,13ft 4in x 13ft 5in (406 x 409cm)Provenance: Christie's North Mymms House, September 1979, lot 493.Literature: Hermann Schmitz, 'Bildteppiche', Berlin, 1919, p.318, pl.157 and Heinrich Gobel 'Wandteppiche, Part II', vol. I Leipzig, 1928, p.389.
A Brussels Teniers tapestry, of the Kermesse,mid-18th century, woven in blues, reds and verdure tones with groups of peasants making merry, eating, drinking and dancing outside an inn, with rustic buildings on the left and a pond in the foreground overhung by trees, with a distant landscape in the background, in picture frame border with the Brussels town mark in the selvedge,10ft 4in x 17ft 10in (314 x 543cm)Provenance: With J Pierpont Morgan;Christies North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 494.This version of the Kermesse is attributed by H C Marillier to the Van der Borcht brothers, Pierre (active 1712-1763) and François (active 1720-1765), ('Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries', 1932, pp.46-48). Marillier lists the present example amongst the surviving complete panels which include a large set in Vienna and another set formerly in the collection of the Earl of Bradford, Castle Bromwich.
A Brussels tapestry,mid-18th century, attributed to Pieter and Frans van der Borght, after David Teniers II, depicting a pastoral scene in the foreground with milkmaids at work with the herd, together with a flock of sheep before an extensive Flemish landscape, within a picture frame border, Brussels town mark bottom right,10ft 5in x 12ft 8in (316 x 385cm)Literature: H C Marillier, 'Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries', page 51.A similar tapestry from Wentworth Castle was sold by Christie's, 20 November 1919 and another part-set of four, Sotheby's, 15 July 1938.Another very similar version by Frans van der Borght, but including the sow and litter to the far right omitted from some examples, was sold Christie's, 6 June 1985, lot 225.
Ω A pair of Regency rosewood footstools, circa 1815, each with tapestry upholstered seats above X-frame supports, 36cm high, the seats 40cm x 32cm Cites Regulations Please note that this lot (lots marked with the symbol Ω in the printed catalogue) may be subject to CITES regulations when exported from the EU. The CITES regulations may be found at www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites
A large French tapestry wall hanging, 19th century, centred by a rectangular section of flowers and leaves surrounded by a border of cartouches and scrolls, the wider area decorated with scrolling vines, leaves and flowers on a blue/grey ground, with a floral border, the corners and centre edges with floral bouquets and motifs, 273 x 82cm.Illustrated
Box of vintage bags to include: various leather bags (labels include Weymouth American, Middx etc), faux crocodile skin handbag, green leather Freedex purse, other leather and faux leather wallets and purses, faux crocodile skin handbag, black Jane Shilton leather clutch bag, crochet bag, fabric handbags, tapestry tote bag etc. (B.P. 24% incl. VAT)
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