Two pillar hangings Red silk velvet, appliqué... Lot 22

Two pillar hangings Red silk velvet, appliqué embroidery in gold and silver lanterns, coloured silks. Each with two saints with large halos under mannerist round arches, on scaled ground surfaces, in the spandrels opposite leaf volutes around a vase motif: St. Bishop and St. Francis. St. John, St. James under a round cartouche with the crowned ligature monogram "MA". Probably originally for a chasuble or dalmatic. Framed behind glass, h 126 resp. 107,5, w 32,5 cm. Spain, second half of the 16th/17th 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.