Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed but not the lower body

but not the lower body

is what looks like a tiny skull

and made all the better by careful crayon coloring in yellow and green on a number of the excellent illustrations

which is both gorgeous and unusual

I believe there was once gold leaf decoration around the top scalloped edge

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed but not the lower bodyI've done my best documenting this, but it's a different thing holding it in your hands and see up close and feel viscerally the amount of skill and labor that went into making it hundreds of years ago. (The back gives some sense of that labor.) It is a fragment of a tapestry, which itself came out of a historic textile collection held by a textile mill. (I purchased it from a favorite dealer in Vermont who often acquires interesting things