Awaiting the Chase
135 x 115cm £494 275 x 215cm £2,820
Two young dog handlers await the beginning of the hunt. The figures appear to have been inspired by those in 'January' and 'July' from the "Hunt of Maximillian". Early 16th century.
Medieval Brussels
275 x 225cm £2,820
275 x 470cm £4,230
Representing the month of March, the original, woven for Archduke Maximillian, hangs in Paris' Louvre Museum. A Horseman, Emporor Charles V (1500-1558) is set against a backdrop featuring the Imperial Palace, the town hall and the now, St Michael Cathedral.
Medieval Brussels B
135 x120cm £494
135 x 250cm £870
Design B, a tapestry created from the middle section of the main piece, Medieval Brussels.
Koran
90 x140cm £564
This tapestry illustrates the first verse of the Koran
Madonna and Child
135 x 75cm £409
202 x 138cm £1,058
The Last Supper
40 x 86cm £83
46 x 100cm £106
79 x 162cm £184
Madonna
58 x 44cm £72.20
72 x 55cm £77.50
Adoration of the Maji
72 x 123cm £306
135 x 204cm £1,070
143 x 221cm £1,128
Tree of Life
62 x 48cm £73 113 x 70cm £306
130 x 90cm £400 184 x 130cm £1,046
230 x 185cm £9,400
The design for this exquisite hand woven wall hanging was taken from William Morris' bedchamber in Kelmscott Manor. The original bed chamber hangings, which can be seen there today, were actually embroidered by William Morris' wife, Jane, in 1891.
The Arming and Departure of the Knights
70 x 105cm £259
135 x 200cm £940
The first of six panels from the Holy Grail series, this wall hanging was designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and was first woven by Morris & Co. in 1894. The original hangs in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot are on the left hand side of the tapestry.
Flora
110 x 72cm £306 143 x 93cm £446
198 x 131cm £1,046
A pair with Pomona, Flora, The Roman Goddess of Flowers, belongs to those tapestries which featured Edward Burne-Jones's erly figure designs. Incorporating Morris' decorative details. Flora was woven between 1884 and 1885 at Merton Abbey.
Ehret die Frauen
95 x 143cm £459
142 x 205cm £1,011
Woven by Morris & C, Merton Abbey in 1912, this tapestry was inspired by a quotation from Schiller's poem, Wurde der Frauen (1796). The original hangs in the Wentworth Gallery, Manchester.
Arms of Nagera
98 x 70cm £242 130 x 130cm £881
Woven in Bruges around 1550 by Aernout Van Loo for the De Nagera family from Bruges, who were of Basque Spanish origin.
The Great Yarmouth Cloth of Estate
72 x 86cm £224 131 x 142cm £837
Part of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, this tapestry can be attributed to Jean Mostinck, tapestry weaver from Enghien, who was claimed to be "tapissier" to the Royal Court of England. The arms represent the reign of either Edward IV (1547-1553) or Ellizabeth I (1559- 1603)
Falconers
67 x 51cm £184 118 x 77cm £633
Original of the tapestry, woven around 1500, hangs in the Cluny Museum in Paris
The Concert
95 x 160 £271 95 x 233cm £730
Within a Mille Fleurs background a young woman surrounded by three children, accompanies a nobleman's song on the organ. The characters are dressed in the Italian style introduced into France by Charles VIII at the time of his Italian campaign of 1495
Tree of Life
62 x 48cm £73 113 x 70cm £306
130 x 90cm £400 184 x 130cm £1,046
After William Morris, Walthamstow 1834-London1896. Despite his ambition to be a painter and his later reputation as a writer, poet, publisher, political thinker and activist, it is as a designer of patterns, particularly botanical images, for which he is most well known
The Vintage
65 x 130cm £301 90 x 154cm £423
120 x 189cm £1,093
A magnificent representation of the grape-gathering and the wine press, on a MIlle Fleurs background. Tis tapestry, probably woven in Tournai in the 15th century, hangs in the Cluny Museum in Paris
The Wild Boar Hunt
68 x 98cm £271 130 x 167cm £940
A part of one o "The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries". The original, woven in Arras in the 15th century, hangs in London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
