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AUDENARDE Beautiful panel of tapestry from Audenarde...

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AUDENARDE Beautiful panel of tapestry from Audenarde (Flanders), from the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century. With wolf and boar, wolf-hawk and Phoenix In wool and silk. Good condition. Nice freshness of the colours. Some restorations of maintenance. Height 310cm - Width 255cm A tapestry of the same series with a similar border is reproduced in the work of J. Boccara " Ames de laine et de Soie ". Boccara " Ames de laine et de Soie " This one is named " Feuille de choux au Taureau " (Cabbage leaf with a Bull) we see an Auroch and a Phoenix. It is indeed with the "greens" that Oudenaarde owes its fame, and this reputation remained attached to this city, even if one produced there also something else. These Oudenaarde tapestries with greenery were already exported to Italy in 1538. The cartoons of the "verdures", whose background was filled with large-leaved plants - probably acanthus leaves and not cabbage leaves - and populated with animals and birds of all kinds, were