Moorish Textile called of the Harpies

This silk Moorish lampas was woven in the Kingdom of Granada, probably in Almería, by the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century. Some groups of lions are portrayed over a green background, in front of some pines and pomegranates held in great leaves of acanthus or palms finished by inverted Nasrid emblems.

This topic of Sassanid origin, which embodies an allegory of royal power, was introduced in the Peninsula by the refined Muslin weavers, who worked with this iconographic inheritance under Christian domination until well into the 15th century.