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Unicorn Tapestry, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

The falcon's bath, 1400-15, detail, depicting a lady and gentleman with courtiers training a falcon in front of a rose trellis, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room, housing 7 tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. 101 species of plant are depicted in the millefleurs background. This is a woollen tapestry woven in the Southern Netherlands. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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The falcon's bath, 1400-15, detail, depicting a lady and gentleman with courtiers training a falcon in front of a rose trellis, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room, housing 7 tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. 101 species of plant are depicted in the millefleurs background. This is a woollen tapestry woven in the Southern Netherlands. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen