Wainscot and Antependia
Wainscot tapestries are comparatively rare and sets were designed to hang above panelled rails and viewed at eye level. The considerable width to height ratio provided considerable challenges to the designer. The most successful of these are millefleurs, giant leaf, hunting scenes, and choir tapestries, the latter with their sacred themes were used to decorate cathedrals, abbeys, and churches. Tapestry altar frontals, dossals or antependia were designed and woven to embellish the altar. Some of these are of extraordinary quality, and among the most beautiful tapestries of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Giant Leaf Wainscot Tapestry with Serrated Leaves
Price on application
Southern Netherlands, circa 1530
13ft 1in width x 4ft 5in height
3.99m x 1.35m
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The Interment and Beatification of Saint Vincent of Saragossa
SOLD
Wainscot Tapestry with the Arms of Nicolas Cavelier
From the series The Life of Saint Vincent
Bruges, dated 1602
14ft 10in width x 5ft 5in height
4.52m x 1.66m -
Millefleurs Tapestry Panel
SOLD
Tournai or Bruges, after 1500
10ft 0in width x 4ft 3in height
3.05m x 1.30m
