Italian or French
Further images
Bizarre brocaded dress silk, with a composition of paired urns containing exotic flowers atop architectural elements. Bicolor damask ground of dark berry red satin and terracotta twill, and supplementary brocaded wefts bound in twill of dark green, dark blue, ice blue, white, and chartreuse.
An identical silk in this colorway, attributed to France or England, is in the Abegg-Stiftung (inv. 5087). A remarkably similar bizarre silk is used on an altar frontal in the treasury of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Pieve, Arezzo.
Provenance
Found in Italy
Literature
Ackerman, Seidengewebe des 18. Jahrhunderts I Bizarre Seiden (2000), pp. 238–40, n. 129.
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