A Scherrebeker "Five Swans" wool tapestry. - image-1

Lot 947 Dα

A Scherrebeker "Five Swans" wool tapestry.

Auction 1039 - overview Cologne
14.11.2014, 14:30 - Porcelain, Ceramics, and Furniture
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
Result: 26.040 € (incl. premium)

A Scherrebeker "Five Swans" wool tapestry.

Worked with vegetable dyed threads. With a woven artist's monogram "OE" to the lower left. In very good condition due to having been stored rolled up over a period of several generations.
Weberei Scherrebek, 1897, after a design by Otto Eckmann.

Provenance

Carl Schwarz, Steglitz, henceforth in family ownership.

Literature

Ernst Schlee mentions Carl Schwarz, Steglitz in first place in a list of sales from the year 1897 an erste Stelle (Scherrebeker Bildteppiche, Neumünster 1984, p. 214). On Eckmann's designs, cf.: Bieske, Flensburg 2002, p. 78 f.