Royal Manufactury of Brussels

By WILLEM VAN LEEFDAEL, after DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER

Woven in wool, silk and metal threads

1684 circa

Armorial tapesty, woven in silver-metal threads, silks and wools, centred by the cartouche-shaped arms of Ayala, Counts of Fuensalida, beneath a crown and flanked by a winged maiden and putti, in the foreground beneath the kneeling figure of father time, his arms bound by a putto, flanked by floral rails, with a simulated fringed tapestry border held by further putti, signed ‘D: TENIERS: INV PINX 1684′ to the lower left and ‘GILL. VAN LEEFDAEL FECIT.’ lower right, the blue outer slip with Brussels town mark.

Literature:  Possibly published in H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 185.