A post-Mortlake metamorphoses tapestry, early 18th century possibly Antwerp


woven with Arethusa telling her tale to Ceres, from Ovid's Metamorphosis, in the middle foreground the spring into which she was changed by Artemis to protect her from Alpheus, the goddess in a chariot drawn by four horse in the sky above, re-bordered to three sides, part of a larger tapestry 436cm x 213cm
|Private Collection UKSpains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex thence by descent.Ref: See Marillier "English Tapestries," page 82 (3b) for a similar version woven in reverse.