Two pillar hangings
Red silk velvet, appliqué... Lot 21
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Two pillar hangings
Red silk velvet, appliqué embroidery in gold and silver lanterns, coloured silks. Three saints each under mannerist round arches, on patterned ground surfaces, backed by indicated brickwork, in the spandrels opposite griffins around a vase motif. St. Peter, St. Michael, St. Francis and Mother of God enthroned, a saint with ciborium, St. John. Framed behind glass, h 163,5, w 35,5 cm. Unframed h ca. 155, w 27,5 cm.
Spain, second half of the 16th century.
Expertise
Appraised 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, pp. 17, 21, 41, 217.
Cf. Cougard-Fruman, Le trésor brodé de la cathédrale du Puy-en-Velay, Paris 2010, pp. 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, pp. 88 f, 94.
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