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Millefleurs Tapestry with a Lady's Coat of Arms (a fragment from a series of armorial millefleurs hangings)
Millefleurs Tapestry with a Lady's Coat of Arms (a fragment from a series of armorial millefleurs hangings)

Millefleurs Tapestry with a Lady's Coat of Arms (a fragment from a series of armorial millefleurs hangings)

Late 15th or early 16th century
Object PlaceFrance or the Franco-Flemish Territories
Medium/TechniqueTapestry weave (wool warp; wool and some silk wefts)
Dimensions115 x 111 cm (45 1/4 x 43 11/16 in.) (detail shown)
Credit LineCharles Potter Kling Fund
Accession number52.478
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceCharles T. Barney (b. 1851 - d. 1907), New York; November 1, 1916, sold by the Barney estate to French and Company, New York [see note 1]; 1952, sold by French and Co. to the MFA for $3000. (Accession Date: May 15, 1952)

NOTES:
[1] Study Collection of Photographs of Tapestries, Photo Archive Database online, Getty Research Institute, no. 307246. This was the left side of a larger tapestry depicting, at the right, an armorial shield supported by a wild man and wild woman. This tapestry was illustrated as intact in the exhibition catalogue French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century (Detroit Institute of Arts, November 16-December 6, 1928), cat. no. 100 (lent by French and Co.). However, it had already been divided by this time, as the two pieces, called "Fragments of an Armorial Tapestry," were catalogued separately.