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| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1470 A.D. | B& W. One pavilion and three bell tents.
Pavilion, mid shade, ball apexes on either end of the roof, line decoration on roof, the valance has plant decoration on a dark back ground, underneath is a thin band of alternate light stripes, the walls appear to have no decoration, the side flaps are tucked up into the valance. Dark bell tent, ball with apron apex, swirl decoration down from the apex for about a third of the roof, line decoration for the other two thirds, light valance with a wavy line decoration, line decoration on walls. Only the roofs on the other two tents are visible: mid shade ball and apron apex and light shade of roof; mid shade ball, apron and roof, swirl decoration down roof from apex. |
Figure 28. ‘The King of Hungary holding a council in his tent on a battlefield’, miniature painting in a copy of Froissart’s Chronicles. France, about 1470. British Library, London (MS. Harl. 4380, fol. 84r). The interior of the tent is hung with millefluers tapestry. | Cavallo, A.S., Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p30. |
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