A Florentine allegorical tapestry: spring, early 17th century, after Alessandro Allori, with three ...

A Florentine allegorical tapestry: spring,
early 17th century, after Alessandro Allori, with three figures singing by a fountain, a pool in the foreground and a table on the right in the open air beneath trees, with figures around seated and, talking, in a broad auricular scrolled border with figures, animals, fruit and flowers centring on a smoking brazier,
13ft 3ins high 16ft wide (403 x 488cm)

Provenance: By repute the Pallavicino Family, by descent to Marchese Serra, Palazzo, Verde, Genoa;
from whom purchased by J Pierpont Morgan and gifted to Walter Hayes Burns;
Christie's North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 492.

Literature: Hermann Schmitz - 'Bildteppiche', Berlin, 1919, p. 318, pl. 157 and Heinrich Gobel -, 'Wandteppiche, Part II', vol. I Leipzig, 1928, p. 389.