{"product_id":"17th-century-11x13-antique-mortlake-english-tapestry-9902475","title":"Antique 17th Century Mortlake English Wool \u0026 Silk 11x13 Blue \u0026 Taupe Handmade Tapestry Rug  #9902475","description":"\u003cp\u003eCondition: Antique\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCirca: 1650s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrigin: England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesign: Mortlake Tapestry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActual size: 10.8x 13.4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThickness: 1\/8\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColors: Blue, Taupe, Ivory, Teal, Green, Wheat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContent: Wool \u0026amp; Silk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAshly Fine Rugs presents an original, 400-year-old, English Baroque Garden Landscape Tapestry from the Royal Mortlake Workshop, 17th Century - once hung in an English castle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoven with silk and wool, it is in a rectangular form that centers on a stone footbridge over a meandering stream with paired geese amidst a garden of various blossoming plant species beneath towering trees concealing a parrot and magpie foraging on large grape clusters, It continues on showing a topiary garden hedge and spherical wall before a fountain, with a forest and manor in the distance. The entire scene is then enclosed by a spiraling acanthus leaf wrapped fruiting and flowering border, framed by a lambrequin edge trimmed in a brown outer slip, surmounted by a coronet above an armorial three-bar shield flanked by palm fronds centering a fleur-de-lys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote: The Mortlake Tapestry Works was established in Mortlake, England, under the proprietorship of Sir Francis Crane, 1620-1636. The Prince of Wales, soon to be King Charles I, arranged for Francis Cleyn to join the Mortlake Tapestry Manufactory in 1624. Cleyn became a key designer at the manufactory and was responsible for several of its most successful series, such as the 'Story of Hero and Leander' and the 'Royal Horses'. He also designed a series depicting 'Playing Boys', which took direct inspiration from two paintings by Polidoro de Caravaggio, which Charles II later purchased in 1637, and appears to form the basis for this tapestry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis tapestry is very desirable considering its size, age, and its unusual English workshop background, as well as its uncontroversial subject depicting a lovely garden park with a fountain and manor in the distance. This is in good condition considering its age, use, and materials.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ashly Fine Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51610049315130,"sku":"9902475","price":65000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/0834\/0794\/files\/4ec3c850-9902475-17th-century-English-Mortlake-Tapestry-10.8x12.10-1.webp?v=1752866372","url":"https:\/\/ashlyrug.com\/products\/17th-century-11x13-antique-mortlake-english-tapestry-9902475","provider":"Ashly Fine Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}