Millefleurs
Millefleurs: a thousand flowers. These tapestries certainly survive from the second half of the 15th century and evolved for almost a century. Whether confined to decorating the foreground of a narrative tapestry or dispersed as a wall-to-wall flowered backdrop, we are most familiar with the small sprays of naturalistic flowers, which appear in the famous Dame a la Licorne or The Unicorn in Captivity at the Cloisters Museum, New York. In the 16th century we encounter more stylised and angular floral sprays, as well as from the 1530’s an even more naturalistic depiction of flowers of less uniform size, most notably in the millefleurs with the Arms of Charles V in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and in the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna.
Millefleurs Tapestry Panel
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Millefleurs Tapestry Panel
Southern Netherlands, circa 1500
4ft 6in width x 3ft 2in height
1.37m x 0.97
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Highly Important Millefleurs Tapestry Panel
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Southern Netherlands, after 1500
8ft 10in width x 7ft 10in height
2.89m x 2.39m
Provenance: Potter Palmer collection -
Millefleurs Tapestry Panel of Stylised Design
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Tournai or Bruges, after 1500
10ft 9in width x 4ft 3in height
3.05m x 1.30m
