A Hortus Conclusus tapestry panel

Tournai, circa 1500-1525. Woven in silk and wool, the enclosed garden with a wattle fence and various animals and birds, a badger, a stag and a doe among them, and flowers including daisies, marigolds and pansies, with a rolling landscape beyond.

A similar tapestry, from the collection of L. Bernheimer, is illustrated in ‘Wandteppiche (I. Teil, Band 2): Die Niederlande’, Göbel, Heinrich, Leipzig 1923, no. 255. Other Hortus Conclusus tapestries may be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, and the Burrell.

51” (130cm) high and 64½” (164cm) wide