woven within a four-sided red and gold scrolling acanthus frame pattern border (altered top corners), with Brussels town mark in lower right selvedge

Overall measurements: 278cm across the top, 280cm across the bottom, 280cm along the left side, 280cm along the right side. The top border has been turned under by approximately 8cm. Would benefit from being unattached, as creating horizontal folds and tensions in tapestry below. Some repair to light highlights, for example to the sky in top right corner. Some minor repairs and some reweaving to the green/blue of dress of central seated figure. Stable condition. Original brown selvedge with oxidisation. Repairs in areas, for example lower right corner. With Brussels town mark in lower selvedge, with some repairs. Tapestry had linen lining and Velcro attached across the top for hanging purposes. Tapestry has some lovely details including the faces. The composition and colouring are balanced and this is a good size.
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For the design of this Winter Scene after the Brussels weaver, Frans Van Der Borght, see Marillier, H.C., Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 52, plate 21(b).

See also Boccara, Dario, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, 1971, p.172, for a weaving﷽ without a border (approximately 275 by 260cm), and with the town and weaver's mark, B*B I.V.D.B. in the lower right corner of the tapestry, and another piece was noted in a Paris sale, 10 December 1922 (possibly previously sold from Château de Vigny, 5 June 1919), which was signed I.V.D Borcht, which would make it the work of the younger Jackob Van Der Borcht.  

A weaving of this subject without the border was sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, 24 June 1976, lot 116. For another weaving, with the Arms of Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) within the top border of narrow gold and yellow frame pattern design, see Sotheby's, New York, 1 April 2010, lot 10. The provenance for this piece was The Collection of Frederic A. Juilliard, New York, sold Plaza Art Galleries, 9-11 December, 1937, lot 526. In the 1937 sale this Winter scene tapestry was accompanied by two other Teniers genre tapestries bearing the same arms. This cited weaving has the pigs from the original design and seen in the present weaving in the lower right corner, replaced by a later inset wheelbarrow pushed b🐠y the figure at r💙ight.