Two embroidered pillar decorations
Two embroidered pillar decorations
Red silk velvet with appliqués in gold, silver and coloured silk threads. Depicting pairs of saints with large haloes standing beneath round Mannerist arches on scale-pattern floors, the spandrels with opposing foliate scrolls flanking vase motifs. Depicting a bishop saint and saints Francis, John, and James beneath a round cartouche with the crowned conjoined monogram “MA”. Presumably designed for a chasuble or dalmatic. Framed under glass, H 126 and 107.5, W 32.5 cm.
Spain, second half 16th / 17th century.
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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.
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Two embroidered pillar decorations
Red silk velvet with appliqués in gold, silver and coloured silk threads. Depicting pairs of saints with large haloes standing beneath round Mannerist arches on scale-pattern floors, the spandrels with opposing foliate scrolls flanking vase motifs. Depicting a bishop saint and saints Francis, John, and James beneath a round cartouche with the crowned conjoined monogram “MA”. Presumably designed for a chasuble or dalmatic. Framed under glass, H 126 and 107.5, W 32.5 cm.
Spain, second half 16th / 17th 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.
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