Details
A Florentine brocatelle orphrey, woven with The Assumption of the Virgin, three joined repeats, but only one complete with the open tomb and the Angle below inscribed Ass.Unta.Est - 40in. (102cm.) x 8in.(21.5cm.), circa 1500 (worn)
See Colour Plate
See Colour Plate
Literature
Fleming, Ernst, Encyclopedia of Textiles, Wasmuth, Berlin, n.d., plate 89
Errara 1901, no.198
Weibel, Adele Coulin, Two Thousand Years of Textiles, The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East, New York, 1952, no.209
Sangiogi, Giorgio, Tessuti Istoriati Fiorentini, Milan, 1921, 153-169
Errara 1901, no.198
Weibel, Adele Coulin, Two Thousand Years of Textiles, The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East, New York, 1952, no.209
Sangiogi, Giorgio, Tessuti Istoriati Fiorentini, Milan, 1921, 153-169