A BRUSSELS BIBLICAL TAPESTRY DEPICTING REBECCA AND ELIEZER AT THE WELL MID/EARLY 16TH CENTURY Woven in metal thread, wools and silks, depicting the story of Abraham's servant Eliezer meeting Rebecca by the well to the centre, maidens carrying water urns to the left, with Eliezer's camels to the right with a penitent kneeling man, the borders decorated with fruit and flower clasps and meandering vine and interspersed by various birds, including a falcon, peacock, owls and a monkey and a dog, with blue outer strip with a green top and bottom outer strip approximately 335 x 447cmProvenance:Supplied by Christopher Gibbs. Catalogue Note:A tapestry depicting The departure of Jacob for the land of Canaan and almost certainly from the same series and probably from the same set, was in the collection of Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, the Netherlands Ambassador to France, and sold at Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 12 April 1932, lot 304, and again anonymously Sotheby's London, 10 April 1981, lot 105 (now at the Castle Museum, Gaasbeek). That tapestry has borders of the same design as this lot and compares with a hanging depicting The Last Supper in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Accession Number: 44.63.4). The Met example has the same slightly unusual but distinctive use of owls to the side panels and is attributed to a design possibly after Michiel Coxie the Elder. It carries an unidentified weaver's mark but the online illustration for this example is in black and white and has no detail of the signature.When this tapestry was offered at Christies (Christie's London, Important Tapestries, European Furniture & Sculpture 15th November 2001, lot 231) it was noted that the Last Supper's weaver's mark appeared to be almost identical with the weaver's marks on the Jacob tapestry from the Stuers collection. Another series with the same weaver's mark is the 'Transfiguration' series from 1537/38 in Bayerisches National Musuem, Munich. The Christie's cataloguing also ascribed the design as being possibly after Bernard van Orley and with weaver Jan I Raes.品相报告: with blue outer strip with a later green top and bottom outer strip, minor reweaving, mainly to dark browns