A red and white Baroque silk damask table cloth with allegories of the continents and four elements. - image-1

Lot 845 Dα

A red and white Baroque silk damask table cloth with allegories of the continents and four elements.

Auction 1039 - overview Cologne
14.11.2014, 14:30 - Porcelain, Ceramics, and Furniture
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.720 € (incl. premium)
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A red and white Baroque silk damask table cloth with allegories of the continents and four elements.

Slightly soiled, with very minor insect damage. 110 x 95 cm.
Probably Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, mid to third quarter 18th C.

Provenance

Private collection, Austria.

Literature

A similar damask table cloth in: Jaques, Deutsche Textilkunst, Krefeld no year, p. 269 ff, especially illus. 183, and another depicting the peace of Hubertusburg of 1763, previously kept in the Staatliches Museum für Deutsche Volkskunde Berlin, today the Museum Europäischer Kulturen.