Lot Essay
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.
Details
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