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Monsters

MONSTERS

Mythological Animals

MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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Basilisks with gazelles. Lucchese diaspre silk (early 14th)
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Basilisks with gazelles. Lucchese diaspre silk...

Persian Hunting Carpet. Central star and four corner pieces with Chinese dragons and phoenixes. In between hunters on foot and horseback, hunting lions, panthers, antelopes, stags, ibex, wild donkeys, boar, foxes etc. Silk, 20 colours, 639 x 323 cm, Inv. T 8336
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Persian Hunting Carpet. Central star and four corner pieces with Chinese drag...

Detail of Persian Hunting Carpet 31-03-01/5. Corner field with a pair of dragons flanked by two phenixes. Silk, from Persia; total size of carpet 693 x 323 cms
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Detail of Persian Hunting Carpet 31-03-01/5. Corner field with a pair of dra...

Woven Silk Carpet from Central Persia. Detail from 31-03-01/17: Servant offers food to a noble; a panther killing a stag; other animals. Silk, Inv. T 9305.
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Woven Silk Carpet from Central Persia. Detail from 31-03-01/17: Servan...

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is "A mon seul desir"-"After my own desire". The series was woven in Brussels, after Parisian cartons, for Jean le Viste, burgher of Paris. The five senses: Touch.Approx.370 x 355 cm 1480-1490
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Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries...

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is "A mon seul desir"- "After my own desire". The series was woven in Brussels, after Parisian cartons, for Jean le Viste, burgher of Paris. The five senses: Sight. 312 x 330 cm 1480-1490
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Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries...

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is "A mon seul desir"- "After my own desire". The series was woven in Brussels, after Parisian cartons, for Jean le Viste, burgher of Paris. The five senses: Hearing.Approx.368 x 290 cm 1480-1490
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Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries...

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is "A mon seul desir" -"After my own desire". The series was woven in Brussels, after Parisian cartons, for Jean le Viste, burgher of Paris. The five senses: Taste. Approx.375 x 458 cm 1480-1490
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Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries...

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is "A mon seul desir" - "After my own desire. The series was woven in Brussels, after Parisian cartons, for Jean le Viste, burgher of Paris. The five senses: Smell. Approx. 367 x 460 cm 1480-1490
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Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries...

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is "A mon seul desir" - "After my own desire" and shows the five senses and, in the final tapestry, the young lady refusing to submit to the domination of the senses. Brussels, 1480-1490
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Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries...

The Great Whore riding on the Seven-headed Beast, Tapestry of the Apocalypse made for Louis I of Anjou, from cartons (patterns) by Hennequin de Bruges. The tapestry was woven in Paris in the workshop of Nicolas Bataille, 1375-1380. 168 x 500 cm. (Revelations 17:3-6):So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns.."
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The Great Whore riding on the Seven-headed Beast, Tapestry of the Apocalypse ma...

A griffin and panther fighting. From a series of tapestries woven in Brussels after cartons by William Tons.
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A griffin and panther fighting. From a series of tapestr...