A Florentine allegorical tapestry, emblematic of winter, early 17th century, after Alessandro Allori, depicting a tapestry-hung room with a canopied bed and figures in domestic pursuits on the right, a peasant bringing in faggots to a kitchen on the left, the broad sculptural border woven with reclining figures of night and day, figures emblematic of the four seasons, bearded satyrs, a log-filled lion mask furnace and grotesque sea scolls, 13ft 4in x 13ft 5in (406 x 409cm) Provenance: Christie's North Mymms House, September 1979, lot 493. Literature: Hermann Schmitz, 'Bildteppiche', Berlin, 1919, p.318, pl.157 and Heinrich Gobel 'Wandteppiche, Part II', vol. I Leipzig, 1928, p.389.