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14th - 15th century

Two pavilions and one bell tent.

White pavilion, red triangular banners fly from either double ball apex, band of decoration along roof ridge consisting of blue rings and dots, blue line above fringed valance, three point guy rope attachment below valance (re-inforced holes indicated by dark rings around rope.

White bell tent, apex obscured, blue bands around upper section of roof, valance decorated by two blue lines on either side of a row of blue circles, followed by blue sculloping.

White pavilion, straight sided, ball apex, similar decoration as other tents on roof ridge and valance.

Provenance unknown.

Stephen Bloch's Surviving Medieval Pictures of Tents and Pavilions.

http://www.adelphi.edu/
sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/

Very similar artistic style to:

14th century (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. ms verandas 12559)

Link to picture:

http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/frombob/tentpic3.html

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