A COLLECTION OF TEXTILE FRAGMENTS INCLUDING A PANEL OF SILK DAMASK
Lot 81

A COLLECTION OF TEXTILE FRAGMENTS INCLUDING A PANEL OF SILK DAMASK

MACAO, FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET

Closed2 December 2010

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GBP 1,375

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A COLLECTION OF TEXTILE FRAGMENTS INCLUDING A PANEL OF SILK DAMASK
MACAO, FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET
woven with double headed eagles in red, blue and white; and a large panel of aubergine damask, Italy, late 16th, early 17th century, woven with a beige leafy meander, interspersed with birds; a blue silk woven with a floral meander; another woven with a cloth of silver ground, with inscriptions to the loom end; another panel of red silk brocaded with metal thread palmettes; and a fragment of linen and wool; four velvet panels, Italy, 16th century, the first a fragment of red cut and un-cut velvet from a fiddle-back chasuble, woven with a diamond lattice; the second a square with zigzag patterned cut and uncut velvet; the third small square of aubergine cut and uncut velvet; the fourth a large panel of red voided velvet cut with lobed cartouches, Genoa, 15th century
mounted in perspex (10)

Specialist note

Examples of the first silk are held by many institutions and private collectors. Cf European Textiles in the Kier Collection, page 151, Catalogue Number 107.
2nd silk: Compare European Textiles in the Kier Collection, page 164, Catalogue Number 118, for an apparantly identical silk.