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Lot 22 Dα

Two embroidered pillar decorations

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €

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.