Millefleurs ground with couple playing chess. unknown c. 1500-1525 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'9" x W 10'1" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Mme. Camille Lelong [Laurentine-Françoise Bernage] coll. French & Co. purchased from Edson Bradley, invoiced 4/29/1935; sold 1/31/1936 to Mrs. Grace R. Rogers [SS 18406]. French & Co. purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries (Grace Rainey Rogers sale) 11/18/1943; sold to Geo [George?] Booth 7/24/1944 [SS 76714]. Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield, Michigan; sold at Sotheby's Parke-Bernet (New
Millefleurs ground with couple playing chess. unknown c. 1500-1525 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'9" x W 10'1" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Mme. Camille Lelong [Laurentine-Françoise Bernage] coll. French & Co. purchased from Edson Bradley, invoiced 4/29/1935; sold 1/31/1936 to Mrs. Grace R. Rogers [SS 18406]. French & Co. purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries (Grace Rainey Rogers sale) 11/18/1943; sold to Geo [George?] Booth 7/24/1944 [SS 76714]. Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield, Michigan; sold at Sotheby's Parke-Bernet (New York) 3/25/1972, lot 200. Germany, Bavaria, Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Seated couple beneath tree playing chess; surrounded by various figures including, archer, falconer, soldier & man holding large hoop; pheasant, rabbits & birds surround Borders missing. The tapestry is housed in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich, & is part of the collection of "Der Bayerischen Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank." French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 18406 [also lists: 39861/31] French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 76714 [also lists: 39861/31] Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries (1993), 509, 511, footnote Göbel, Wandteppiche I:2 (1923), Sotheby, Tapestries (1972), 64, 65, lot 200 Himmelheber, Pantheon 30 ( 1972), 392-395
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