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great set, the series of the Apocalypse of Augers Cathedral. Even early fifteenth century pieces are rare so that it is the greatest good fortune to have in the Arts Club collection a group of these all fragmentary but all representative. It is impossible to say definitely whether the first two pieces in the collection were woven at Arras or Tourney. The two towns are close together and probably the work was very similar. But beginning with the third piece in the catalogue a definite attribution to Tournay is possible. In the later years of the fifteenth century it again becomes difficult to distinguish the works of Tournay but this time th close competitor is not Arras, for the industry had died out there before 1450, but Andeuarde? It was in Tournay that the Dukes of Burgundy, the most lavish patrons that this art ever knew, ordered almost all of their great sets. At the close of the Gothic period Brussels begins to be ascendent and in the end dominates the industry.