Lucca
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Lucca
- Identifier
- 48.378
- Transfer of custody
- MFA Boston
- Acquisition
- By 1937, Giorgio Sangiorgi (b. 1886 - d. 1965), Rome [see note 1]; 1946, sold by Sangiorgi to Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; 1948, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $230. (Accession Date: May 13, 1948) NOTES: [1] Sangiorgi lent a piece of the same brocade to the exhibition "L'antico tessuto d'arte italiano" (Rome, 1937-1938), cat. no. 23. / John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
- Collection
- Technique
- Velvet 82%
- Embroidery 99%
- Depiction
- Floral motif 64%
- Floral motif 64%
- Dimension
- 7 cm (height)42 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
- Type of object
Description
Incomplete row with lion head (?), bird, bird, lion, joined by undulating stem with plants and flowers. Off-white motifs (worn gilded skin wound on linen) on green background.
