_Wool and Silk._ H. 11 _ft._ 3 _in._ W. 12 _ft._ 9 _in._ ] GARDEN SCENE: _Through a trellis upheld by caryatides a formal garden with fountains and pavilions is seen. In the foreground, deer. In the garden, various animals. Border of scrolls and flowers with inset cartouches showing animals._ Such trellis designs as this were quite often used in the middle of the XVIth century. A famous example very similar to this is the _Vertumnus and Pomona_ set, one of which was in the Palace of the Escurial and two in the Barberini Collection.[25] Another piece so like this that it must be the work of the same designer is in the Vienna Collection, number 142. [Sidenote: Lent by _P. W. French & Company_.] It is a rich and resourceful kind of decoration well fitted to the requirements of tapestry. The drawing of the deer is unusually graceful and vivacious. [Sidenote: 31] FLANDERS, XVI CENTURY [Sidenote: _Wool and Silk._ H. 5 _ft._ 9 _in._ W. 12 _ft._ 9 _in._ ] VERDURE: _In the center a château surrounded by a moat on which swans and ducks swim about. At the left fishermen on the bank and a hunter with his dogs. On the right mounted hunters chasing rabbits through a wood._ [Sidenote: Lent by _Mrs. William H. Crocker_.] The high-keyed landscape on a small scale was the Renaissance successor to the Gothic millefleurs. The drawing in this piece is beautifully clean and exact, and the color delightfully and uncommonly varied and vibrant. The château is so carefully rendered that it is valuable as an architectural record. The piece may have been made by Flemish weavers working in England. [Sidenote: 32] FLANDERS, LATE XVI CENTURY [Sidenote: _Wool._ H. 9 _ft._ W. 23 _ft._ ] HUNTING SCENE: _Hunters riding through a woodland. In the foreground a knight and lady strolling. Scroll border._ [Sidenote: Lent by _W. & J. Sloane_.] This piece is a rather uncommon variation of a familiar type. Many tapestries were woven in Flanders in the second part of the XVIth century that were predominantly verdure with a few minor figures, but the figures were seldom as delicately drawn nor the colors so high in key and clear. It is quite possible that the piece was woven by Flemish weavers in England, a few pieces woven there by the Poyntz family being known to have somewhat the same quality. The relatively low height in proportion to the great length also suggests that it was made for an English house. [Illustration: _Hannibal Approaches Scipio to Sue for Peace_ No. 25 ] [Illustration: _Cyrus Captures Astyages, His Grandfather_ No. 26 ] [Sidenote: 33] FLANDERS, ENGHIEN (?), XVI CENTURY [Sidenote: _Wool._ H. 9 _ft._ 7 _in._ W. 7 _ft._ 9 _in._ ] VERDURE: _Large scrolling leaves, bluish-green, with bunches of fruit and flowers and small finches. Wide border of fruit and flowers._