Weaving a fascinating tale of England’s earliest tapestries
One of the quirkier and more unusual offerings to feature in Christie’s £3.7m sale of English furniture and works of art on June 7 was this rare Elizabethan map fragment, one of the first tapestries ever produced in England.
The 6ft 2in x 4ft (1.9m x 1.2m) wool and silk fragment constitutes a substantial portion of a tapest…