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A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses

c. 1685

After a design probably by Peter Ykens (1648–1695) and Pieter Spierinckx (1635–1711) Woven at the Wauters workshop Flanders, Antwerp

Antwerp

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

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