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The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, South Netherlandish
The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
South Netherlandish
1495–1505
The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp, wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
[Public Room in the Home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at 10 West 54th Street; Unicorn Tapestries]
Samuel H. Gottscho
1937
[Public Room in the Home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at 10 West 54th Street; Unicorn Tapestries]
Samuel H. Gottscho
1937
[Public Room in the Home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at 10 West 54th Street; Unicorn Tapestries]
Samuel H. Gottscho
1937
[Public Room in the Home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at 10 West 54th Street; Unicorn Tapestries]
Samuel H. Gottscho
1937
Unicorns at the Fountain, Linen and silk, Italian
Unicorns at the Fountain
Italian
16th century
Devotional Diptych with the Nativity and the Adoration, Silver, niello with gilded copper alloy frame, French
Devotional Diptych with the Nativity and the Adoration
French
ca. 1500
Thickets with Large Leaves, Flowers, Animals,..., Wool warp, wool wefts with a few silk wefts, South Netherlandish
Thickets with Large Leaves, Flowers, Animals,...
South Netherlandish
ca. 1540–50
Table carpet with unicorns, Wool, silk (14-16 warps per inch, 6 per cm.), Dutch
Table carpet with unicorns
Dutch
ca. 1600
Valance, Campbell family member, Loudoun, Scotland, Wool and white linen, Scottish
Valance
Possibly by Campbell
first half 17th century
Cover with Unicorns, Cotton and bast fibers, Italian, Perugia
Cover with Unicorns
Italian, Perugia
16th century
Fragment, Linen and wool, Spanish
Fragment
Spanish
mid-16th century
Embroideries with Allegorical Scenes, Silk and linen on woven linen ground with applied red pigment and black under- and overdrawing, German
Embroideries with Allegorical Scenes
German
ca. 1450
Chalice veil, Needle lace, Italian
Chalice veil
Italian
19th century (?)
Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse, Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona Italian, Wool, silk and precious metal-wrapped threads (20-22 warps per inch, 8-9 warps per cm.), Netherlandish, Brussels
Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
Multiple artists/makers
designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570
The Elephant from a set of five Grotesques, Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer French, Wool, silk (21-27 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.), French, Beauvais
The Elephant from a set of five Grotesques
Multiple artists/makers
designed ca. 1688, woven ca. 1690–1711
Piece, Silk and metal thread, Portuguese
Piece
Portuguese
early 18th century
Perseus Rescues Andromeda, Wool warp; wool and silk wefts, South Netherlandish
Perseus Rescues Andromeda
South Netherlandish
ca. 1515–25
Hanging, Embroidered net, punto à tela, punto à rammendo, Italian
Hanging
Italian
early 16th century
Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills, from “Don Quixote in Grotesques”, Unknown Designer, Wool, silk and precious metal-wrapped threads, British, London
Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills, from “Don Quixote in Grotesques”
Designer Unknown Designer
Workshop director Woven under the direction of Francis Poyntz
ca. 1674–76
Episodes in the Story of the Vengeance of Our Lord, Wool warp, wool wefts with a few silk wefts, South Netherlandish
Episodes in the Story of the Vengeance of Our Lord
South Netherlandish
ca. 1460–70
Two Episodes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son: The Prodigal among the Harlots, Wool warp; wool and silk wefts, South Netherlandish
Two Episodes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son: The Prodigal among the Harlots
South Netherlandish
ca. 1510–25
Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion, Wool intarsia and applique with gilded leather and linen embroidery, Scandinavian
Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion
Scandinavian
ca. 1500
Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag), Wool warp, wool and silk wefts, South Netherlandish
Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
South Netherlandish
ca. 1495–1510
Emperor Vespasian Cured by Veronica's Veil, Wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave., Flemish, Brussels
Emperor Vespasian Cured by Veronica's Veil
Flemish, Brussels
ca. 1510
Andromache and Priam Urging Hector Not to Go to War (from Scenes from the Story of the Trojan War), Pasquier Grenier of Tournai Burgundian, Wool warp, wool wefts with a few silk wefts., South Netherlandish
Andromache and Priam Urging Hector Not to Go to War (from Scenes from the Story of the Trojan War)
Probably produced through Pasquier Grenier of Tournai
ca. 1470–90
Caparison, Aubusson , possibly, Wool, silk (18-20 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.), French, possibly Aubusson
Caparison
Manufactory Aubusson
1750–85
The Twelve Ages of a Man: The First Three Ages (Birth-18), or Spring, Bernard van Orley Netherlandish, Wool, silk (16-20 warps per inch, 6-8 per cm.), Netherlandish, Brussels
The Twelve Ages of a Man: The First Three Ages (Birth-18), or Spring
Designer Probably after a design by the Workshop of Bernard van Orley
ca. 1515
Heraldic Composition, Wool warp, wool wefts, South Netherlandish
Heraldic Composition
South Netherlandish
ca. 1350–75
The Offering to Bacchus (from a set of five Berain Grotesques), Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer French, Wool, silk (21-27 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.), French, Beauvais
The Offering to Bacchus (from a set of five Berain Grotesques)
Multiple artists/makers
designed ca. 1688, woven ca. 1690–1711
Hunting for Wild Boar (from the Hunting Parks Tapestries), Wool, and silk thread, South Netherlandish
Hunting for Wild Boar (from the Hunting Parks Tapestries)
South Netherlandish
ca. 1515–35
The Festival of Psyche, with Mercury from a set of Mythological Subjects after Giulio Romano, Giulio Romano Italian, Wool, silk, metal thread (20-26 warps per inch, 8-12 per cm.), French, Paris
The Festival of Psyche, with Mercury from a set of Mythological Subjects after Giulio Romano
Multiple artists/makers
designed 1684–86, woven 1689–92
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham, Wool warp; wool wefts with a few silk wefts, South Netherlandish
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
South Netherlandish
ca. 1488–1501
Madonna with Eight Saints, Linen warp; wool, silk, and metallic wefts, silk embroidery yarns, Upper Rhenish
Madonna with Eight Saints
Upper Rhenish
ca. 1550–1600
Two Putti Trying To Stop a Monkey Abducting a Child from a set of the Giochi di Putti, Giovanni da Udine (Giovanni dei Ricamatori) Italian, Wool warps, wool and silk wefts, Italian, Rome
Two Putti Trying To Stop a Monkey Abducting a Child from a set of the Giochi di Putti
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1635

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