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Honor Making a Chaplet of Roses

ca. 1410–20
Not on view
The French inscription below Honor may be translated: "I am Honor who makes chaplets for my children who are beautiful." Repairs make it impossible to decipher the other inscriptions with certainty. The young girl is probably saying: "To please my friend better, I shall put on this pretty hat." The inscription above the courtier at the right identifies him as Detuit ("Pleasure"). The gentleman at the left may be saying: "Homage to my good lady, my protectress." Essentially an allegory of courtly love, this fragmentary tapestry hanging was inspired by romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Honor Making a Chaplet of Roses
  • Date: ca. 1410–20
  • Culture: South Netherlandish
  • Medium: Wool warp, wool wefts
  • Dimensions: 93 x 108 in. (236.2 x 274.3 cm)
  • Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
  • Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.85
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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