Interesting Brocade
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A short article from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club about a 17th-century Italian silk brocade in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pattern is an ogival framework of green silk oak leaves and metal-thread acorns on a white satin ground, with a crown and a bow knot alternating at the finials. The author identifies the crown as the Medici grand-ducal crown and reads the oak leaves as the badge of the della Rovere family. This points to the 1634 marriage of Ferdinand II de' Medici and Vittoria della Rovere, or to the later enlargement of the Pitti Palace, as the occasion for the fabric.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1928
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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