The central coat-of-arms (possibly the Grimaldi Family of Genoa) above an inscribed scroll and surmounted by a helmet and spread eagle with fleur-de-lys on chest and before foliate scrolls, flanked by a scantily draped maiden, Fortuna, standing on a globe and holding a sail aloft to the right and Atlas supporting a globe on his shoulder to the left, before a seascape and surmounted by a sun, within a border with conforming coat-of-arms to angles and joined by lappeted bands with clusters of fruit and flowers, within a red guard border with brussels twon mark and unidentified weaver's monogram to the lower right side, minor areas of reweaving, rebacked. 8 ft. 10 in. x 8 ft. 4 in. Provenance: Sold Christie's, New York, October 21, 2004, Lot 1010, from the Collection of the late Deane F. Johnson. Probably the Grimaldi Family of Genoa, Italy. Ambassador Jefferson and Mary Patterson, Washington, D.C. and bequeathed to the Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. Note: This tapestry is identical to an example in the Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis in Brussels (M. Crick-Kuntziger, Catalogus van de Wandtapijten, Brussels, 1956, cat. 34, pl. 43). Interestingly that tapestry also bears a small Brussels town mark but apparently another also unidentified weaver's mark. It is further interesting to note that four other version are recorded, some of which may be the same ones: one in the collection of Engel-Dolfus, who exhibited the tapestry in Mulhouse in 1883, a further version in the collection of Camillo Castiglione which was sold in Amsterdam, 17 - 20 November 1925, lot 269, one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a final version from the collection of Maurice Ruffer, and previously in that of Count Bosdari, which was sold at Christie's, London, 28 April 1932, lot 152. The number of recorded examples suggests that this tapestry was woven as part of a larger series to decorate either a large room or several spaces in a palace.,