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...inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard...
...Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...Tournai (or Oudenaarde) Gothic...
King Albert asked Baron Houtart, Catholic Deputy for Tournai, to form a new cabinet. He refused, saying that only M. Theunis was suited to the office under the present circumstances...