Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed 9" l x 5 5/16"

9" l x 5 5/16" d x 5 3/8" t and in very good

With small nails on their back sides

which to me feels all of a piece with it

I would guess they date from the 1940s or so

but not the lower body

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed 9" l x 5 5/16"I'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