Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed which is both gorgeous and

which is both gorgeous and unusual

but not the lower body

That one was part of a very old Punch and Judy puppet set

I'm not sure what its original use would have been

which to me feels all of a piece with it

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed which is both gorgeous andI'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