拍品 131
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A chasuble of crimson silk velvet, woven to reveal a cloth of gold and yellow ground, with an asymemetrical pattern of curving stems and pomegranates, with a coat of arms embroidered in metal threads on the back, Italian, 16th, first half 17th century

细节
A chasuble of crimson silk velvet, woven to reveal a cloth of gold and yellow ground, with an asymemetrical pattern of curving stems and pomegranates, with a coat of arms embroidered in metal threads on the back, Italian, 16th, first half 17th century

拍品专文

See M.King and D. King, European Textiles in the Keir Collection 400BC to 1800AD (1990), catalogue Number 58 for a similar velvet and discussion of a velvet chasuble with applied heraldic shield.