Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed is what looks like a

is what looks like a tiny skull

With small nails on their back sides

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

but painted black and if this bird is sitting night watch

I'm not sure what its original use would have been

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed is what looks like aI'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