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AN ITALIAN CHASUBLE OF CRIMSON VELVET
16th Century
Voided to reveal a gilt metal ground, worked with large scale scrolling foliage, the orphreys embroidered in coloured silks and metal threads with portraits of Saints James the Greater, Andrew, Luke, Peter and the Virgin and Child, re-backed, some restorations;
and a stole, maniple, bourse and veil of crimson cut velvet, late 18th Century, French, Lyons (5)
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See similar example, Avanzati, Florence.

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