Lot 90
90
A SPANISH EMBROIDERED SILK "REPOSTERO"

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A SPANISH EMBROIDERED SILK "REPOSTERO"
MID-18TH CENTURY

Centrally embroidered with addorsed oval medallions enclosing the quartered coats-of-arms surmounted by a spreadwinged eagle suspending the motto 'Mas Ball Bolando' above a ducal coronet and a ribbon-tied cloak, all against a cerulian blue ground within elaborately scrolling foliage and metallic thread gimp suspending tassels-55in. x 59in. (140cm.x 150cm.)

Lot Essay

This repostero, or balcony hanging, bears the coat-of-arms of the Counts of Oñate. The family is known to have commissioned 100 such reposteros on yellow silk in the mid-eighteenth century for the balconies of the Palacio Oñate which was located in the Puerto del Sol in the center of Madrid. This repostero may be from another set ordered for the palace