A SILK, VOIDED VELVET AND METAL-THREAD PANEL WITH FOLIATE MOTIFS IN DOUBLE-OGIVAL DESIGN, TURKEY OR ITALY, 16TH CENTURY
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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A SILK, VOIDED VELVET AND METAL-THREAD PANEL WITH FOLIATE MOTIFS IN DOUBLE-OGIVAL DESIGN, TURKEY OR ITALY, 16TH CENTURY
metal thread lines in cream silk designed with ogival latice with palmettes and pomegranate petals with green and yellow silk floral details, on a voided red velvet ground with foliate lattice designed in pinkish-red pile, mounted
155.5 by 64cm.
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Lisbet Holmes Textiles, London, 15 May 1984.
"The close and often symbiotic relationship between Bursa and Italian weaving in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries makes it unlikely that we will ever know with absolute certainty the provenance of such velvets" (Atasoy et al, 2001, p.300).
This textile belongs to a particular group characterised by its light and dark tonalities which form two layers of ogival latices with split palmettes and arabesques. A close comparable is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no.1970.65.9 (ibid. pp.68-70, plate 71).