1450 / 1500, Florence

1450 / 1500, Florence

Identifier
31.140
Transfer of custody
MFA Boston
Acquisition
1931, Adolfo Loewi, Venice; 1931, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $8500. (Accession Date: March 5, 1931) / Julia Knight Fox Fund
Collection
Technique
Depiction
Dimension
197 cm (height)
73.5 cm (width)
Production time
Production place
Type of object

Description

Length of voided velvet with pile-on-pile and uncut and cut pile, gold metallic uncut loop pile; brocaded with gold-metallic thread. Design of two undulating, intertwining vines. One vine is formed by gold leaves outlined with red velvet pile, bearing large conventionalized leaf forms woven with red velvet in two heights of pile powdered with gold loops enclosing smaller thistle-like forms in velvet surrounded by gold leaves outlined with velvet piles. The other vine is red velvet pile powdered with loops of gold, bearing cones of thistles woven with red velvet pile, flat, and looped gold weft. Traces of uncut velvet appear in the pile. Pieced.