Pillar hanging with four representations of saints. Red... Lot 23

Pillar hanging with four representations of saints. Red silk velvet, appliqué embroidery in gold and silver lantern, coloured silks. St. Andrew, St. Peter, St. John and St. Catherine of Alexandria under mannerist round arches, on patterned ground surfaces, backed by indicated brickwork, in the spandrels opposite griffins around a vase motif. Framed behind glass, frame H 186, W 32 cm. Unframed H 179, W 24 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.