MEDIEVAL BESTIARY Lion Like Beast in Blue Ceramic Tile

Digital graphic design by Bulgan Lumini © This tapestry fragment represents a fabulous lionlike beast with pointed teeth, clawed feet, and a scaly rump. Such beasts, derived from those illustrated in classical texts like the Physiologus and mediaeval bestiaries, represent vices. Here the figures posed with them seem to have tamed their libidinous cravings. Such tapestries were displayed in homes providing decoration as well as insulation.