Two embroidered pillar decorations

Two embroidered pillar decorations

Red silk velvet with appliqués in gold, silver and coloured silk threads. Depicting the saints standing in groups of three beneath round Mannerist arches on patterned floors against a background of stylised brickwork. The spandrels with opposing griffins flanking vase motifs. Depicting the saints: Peter, Michael, Francis, the Virgin enthroned, a saint with a ciborium, and John. Framed under glass, H 163.5, W 35.5. H without frame ca. 155, W 27.5 cm.
Spain, second half 16th century.

Certificate

With an expertise by Danièle Véron-Denise.

Literature

Cf. Mayer Thurman, European Textiles in the Robert Lehmann Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2001, no. 47. Cf. Orsini Landini (ed.), Antichi tessuti e paramenti sacri. I tesori salvati di Montecassino, 2004, p. 64 f. Cf. Garcia, Los Bordados de Guadalupe. Estudio historico-artistico, 2006, p. 17, 21, 41, 217. Cf. Cougard-Fruman, Le trésor brodé de la cathédrale du Puy-en-Velay, Paris 2010, p. 58 f. Cf. Fastes de la Couronne d´Aragon. Dialogue entre les broderies et les tissus du Musée des Tissus de Lyon et du Musée Épiscopal de Vic, Lyon 2010, p. 88 f, 94.