46.146_01
Title
Five Ladies in an Interior
Date
circa 1550; circa 1900-1920
Materials
wool (warps), wool (wefts), silk (wefts), 5 warp threads per cm, 2 ply S Z
Place
Southern Netherlands, Spanish Netherlands (probably) (place of manufacture)
Description
Wool tapestry fragment depicting five women in an interior. The women are gathered in a room hung with deep blue voided velvet panels. One holds an unfurled scroll, perhaps a sheet of music; another reads from a book; a third gesticulates. A curtained niche abutting the window behind the women contains a grisaille figurine of the pilgrim Saint James of Compostela. Part of the Burrell Collection.
Measurements
overall: 1360 mm x 810 mm
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