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Lot 23 Dα

An embroidered pillar decoration with a depiction of four saints

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 3.750 € (incl. premium)
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An embroidered pillar decoration with a depiction of four saints

Red silk velvet with appliqués in gold, silver and coloured silk threads. Depicting saints Andrew, Peter, John, and Catherine of Alexandria standing beneath round Mannerist arches on patterned floors against a background of stylised brickwork, the spandrels with opposing griffins flanking vase motifs. Framed under glass, frame H 186, W 32 cm. H without frame 179, W 24 cm.
Spain, second half 16th century.

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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.