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THE ROAD TO CALVARY, A RARE FLEMISH NEW TESTAMENT BIBLICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT, NETHERLANDS, POSSIBLY TOURNAI, FROM THE SERIES OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND THE VIRGIN, DESIGNER UNKNOWN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, CIRCA 1505-1516
woven in wool, depicting Christ carrying the cross in the procession on the road to Calvalry, with the Virgin Mary collapsed on the road side, the figures extending into the distant hills, past buildings and onlookers in the upper colonnade, the scene flanked by narrow copper coloured Corinthian all' antica?columns on pedestal supports, linked across the top by a strip of dark brown with copper coloured motifs, and the lower edge with a light copper coloured band with leaf motifs, and supporting a small shield the coat-of-arms (la crosse en pal)of the French d'Amboise family, with a bishop's crosier, and flanked further along the lower edge with two drop scallop shell motifs, the insignia of St James,?reduced in size??approximately 148cm high, 191cm wide, 4ft. 10in., 6ft. 3in.