Two Spanish border stripes Red silk velvet,... Lot 25

Two Spanish border stripes Red silk velvet, appliqué embroidery in gold and silver lantern, coloured silks. One strip with a radiant wreath Madonna under a three-passage Mannerist arched architecture, below and on the second border strip a fountain architecture in several tiers with leaf volutes and grotesques. Framed behind glass, h 135 resp. h 115, w 32 cm. Around 1600 / early 17th century. Expertise Appraised by Danièle Véron-Denise. Literature Cf. Durian-Ress, Textiles Collection Bernheimer Paraments 15th - 19th century, Munich 1991, no. 60. Cf. Mayer Thurman, European Textiles in the Robert Lehmann Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2001, no. 54.