Panel
CultureItalian or Spanish
Datelate 15th century
MediumVelvet, silk, and silver-gilt thread
DimensionsOverall: 38 × 22 1/2 inches (96.52 × 57.15 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number31-109
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DescriptionRed silk pile on two lengths with loops of silver-gilt thread and yellow silk with silver-gilt loops. Put together from four vertical strips of the same velvet. Velvet brocade with great Gothic design in gold, on red, in two thicknesses of pile. On a broad way band lies a branch bound with leaves which end in a fruit motif. On the sides, fruit or thistle motifs on a gold ground.Exhibition HistoryThreads of Gold: Brocades and Embroideries for the Church, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, July 2-September 1, 1985, no. 7.
Threads of Gold: Brocades and Embroideries for the Church , exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, 1985), unpaginated.
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