two panels of the Unicorn Tapestries
No one knows what the A and E stand for.
Some of the flowers in the tapestry are thought now to be extinct.
from The Unicorn Tapestries, 1495-1505, South Netherlandish
wool warp; silk, silver and gilt wefts
The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937
The Unicorn in Captivity
The Unicorn Leaps across a Stream
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