The Tapestry Book. Helen Churchill Candee

FACING PAGE CHINESE TAPESTRY 14 Chien Lung Period COPTIC TAPESTRY 15 About 300 AD COPTIC TAPESTRY 16 Boston Museum of Fine Arts COPTIC TAPESTRY 17 Boston Museum of Fine Arts TAPESTRY FOUND IN GRAVES IN PERU 18 Date prior to Sixteenth Century THE SACRAMENTS (Coloured Plate) 34 Arras Tapestry, about 1430. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York THE SACRAMENTS 38 Arras Tapestry, about 1430 THE SACRAMENTS 39 Arras Tapestry, about 1430 FIFTEENTH CENTURY, FRENCH TAPESTRY 40 Boston Museum of Fine Arts THE LIFE OF CHRIST 41 Flemish Tapestry, second half of Fifteenth Century. Boston Museum of Fine Arts LA BAILLÉE DES ROSES 42 French Tapestry, about 1450. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York FIFTEENTH CENTURY MILLEFLEUR WITH ARMS 43 Cathedral of Troyes THE LADY AND THE UNICORN 44 French Tapestry, Fifteenth Century. Musée de Cluny, Paris THE LADY AND THE UNICORN 45 French Tapestry, Fifteenth Century. Musée de Cluny, Paris THE SACK OF JERUSALEM (DETAIL) 46 Burgundian Tapestry, about 1450. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST, WITH ARMORIAL SHIELDS 48 Flemish Tapestry, Fifteenth Century. Institute of Art, Chicago HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN 49 Angers Cathedral DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 50 German Tapestry, about 1450 FLEMISH TAPESTRY. ABOUT 1500 51 Collection of Alfred W. Hoyt, Esq. DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 52 Flemish Tapestry, late Fifteenth Century HISTORY OF ST. STEPHEN 53 Arras Tapestry, Fifteenth Century VERDURE 54 French Gothic Tapestry “ECCE HOMO” 55 Brussels Tapestry, about 1520. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ALLEGORICAL SUBJECT 56 Flemish Tapestry, about 1500. Collection of Alfred W. Hoyt, Esq. CROSSING THE RED SEA 57 Brussels Tapestry, about 1500. Boston Museum of Fine Arts THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 58 Flemish Tapestry, about 1510. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq., New York FLEMISH TAPESTRY,