Scipio Africanus: Battle of Zama

late 16th Century

From the story of Scipio and depicting the battle of Zama, with the Roman troops of Scipio and the Carthaginian troops of Hanibal engaged in fierced combat and centrally woven with an elephant and howdh filled with soldiers, within a dense landscape.

Brussels

cotton, silk, wool

Overall: 148 1/2 x 1/4 x 88 in. (377.2 x 0.6 x 223.5 cm)

Purchased by Doris Duke at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 7-9, 1958, Sale no. 1811 lot 379

1999.677