ITALIAN AND FRENCH, 15TH-19TH CENTURIES
Details
A GROUP OF SILK, CUT-VELVET AND EMBROIDERED VESTMENTS AND TEXTILE FRAGMENTS
Italian and French, 15th-19th Centuries
Including a red silk damask alb with armorial metallic-thread appliques on a red velvet ground; another alb of green and gold velvet; one side of a crimson cut-velvet chasuble worked with scrolls and pomegranates, a small gold cut-velvet and gold thread panel depicting a crown (framed); a crimson and gold silk thread panel depicting the Queen of Heaven surrounded by angels, a silk brocade chasuble with meandering vines on a salmon ground; another with meandering branches with flowers on a crimson ground with metallic- thread border; an embroidered alb worked with silk and metallic-thread centered by a chalice issuing flowers flanked by birds on cream silk ground; a crimson silk damask table cover embroidered with floral designs in gold foil; and two cope hoods (11)
Italian and French, 15th-19th Centuries
Including a red silk damask alb with armorial metallic-thread appliques on a red velvet ground; another alb of green and gold velvet; one side of a crimson cut-velvet chasuble worked with scrolls and pomegranates, a small gold cut-velvet and gold thread panel depicting a crown (framed); a crimson and gold silk thread panel depicting the Queen of Heaven surrounded by angels, a silk brocade chasuble with meandering vines on a salmon ground; another with meandering branches with flowers on a crimson ground with metallic- thread border; an embroidered alb worked with silk and metallic-thread centered by a chalice issuing flowers flanked by birds on cream silk ground; a crimson silk damask table cover embroidered with floral designs in gold foil; and two cope hoods (11)
Provenance
Blumka Gallery, sold Sotheby's New York, 10 January 1996, lot 405