Red damask brocaded with gold thread & yellow silk
33.5 x 47.5cms
French or Italian
Circa 1700
A simple yet powerful design in gold thread highlighted with yellow silk on a red lampas silk.
For a similar example see Plate XXI . Vilhelm Slomann: Bizarre Designs in Silks, Copenhagen 1953 The Statni Zidovske Museum No.65.583. Part of a Torah mantle given to the Synagogue of Breznice in 1758.
For a related example see Catalogue No.60 The Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg Volume 1 Bizarre Seiden.
