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The 1st Duke of Devonshire’s ‘Queen Mary’ beds at Devonshire House, Chatsworth and Hardwick Hall
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 781–809
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Fryman, Olivia (Fryman, Olivia)
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Wood, Lucy (Wood, Lucy)
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1. Detail of Fig.18, showing the crimson velvet bed from Queen Mary of Modena’s Great Bedchamber at Whitehall Palace, much altered in its final guise at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.
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10. Armchair (one of a pair) made to accompany the bed shown in Fig.1, attributed to Thomas Roberts. c.1697–1702. Walnut and beech, the loose back and seat covered in velvet with applied metal-thread embroidery, height 138 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127755.2).
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11. Stool from a set of six made en suite with the armchair shown in Fig.10, attributed to Thomas Roberts. c.1697–1702. Walnut and beech, the loose squab seat covered in velvet with applied metalthread embroidery, 51 by 66 by 51 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127754.5).
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12. Detail of the armchair shown in in Fig.10, showing the outside-back with its loose upholstered frame. Note the horizontal orientation of the velvet selvage, at right-angles to the vertical cords.
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13. The Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. After 1858. Pencil, pen and brown ink, and watercolour on paper, 36.8 by 54.6 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd).
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14. The High Great Chamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, by Henry Shaw. Lithograph, 25 by 35.7 cm. The bed appears as in Shaw’s earlier engraving (Fig.15), but here with the bed feet included. The armchairs, one of which is shown in Fig.10, are placed under the canopy at the far end of the room, but there is no sign of the stools (Fig.11). (From P.F. Robinson: Vitruvius Britannicus, Part III, History Of Hardwicke Hall: Illustrated By Plans, Elevations, And Internal Views Of The Apartments, From Actual Measurement, London 1835, facing p.12; British Library, London).
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15. Velvet bed, with gold & silver ornaments, at Hardwicke Hall, Derbyshire, after Henry Shaw. 1834. Lithograph, 29 by 22.5 cm. (From Specimens of Ancient Furniture Drawn from Existing Authorities by Henry Shaw F.S.A. with Descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K.H. L.L.D. and F.S.A., London 1836 [folio edition], plate 40; National Art Library, London, 57.E.9).
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16. The plate in Fig.15 as reproduced in the quarto edition of the book. 1834. Lithograph, 27.8 by 21.5 cm. (National Art Library, London, 57.C.7).
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17. Detail of Chair in the State Room [High Great Chamber] at Hardwicke Hall, Derbyshire, by Henry Shaw. Lithograph. (From Specimens of Ancient Furniture Drawn from Existing Authorities by Henry Shaw F.S.A. with Descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K.H. L.L.D. and F.S.A., London 1833, plate 17; National Art Library, London, 57.E.9).
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18. The High Great Chamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, attributed to W.H.L. Price. ?1838. Watercolour, ink and gouache on paper, 46 by 61 cm. (sight size). (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1130055).
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19. The High Great Chamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, by W.H.L. Price. Probably c.1844–45. Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour on paper, 48.2 by 61 cm. (sight size). (Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, WC 82; reproduced by permission of the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees).
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2. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, by Godfrey Kneller. c.1700. Oil on canvas, 72 by 56.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire).
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20. The window bay in the High Great Bedchamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, attributed to Lady Louisa Egerton. 1850s. Watercolour, graphite and gum arabic on paper, 32.9 by 23.1 cm. (From an extra-illustrated copy of the 6th Duke of Devonshire’s Handbook of Chatsworth and Hardwick, London 1845, p.186B; Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, DEV/010030.6; reproduced by permission of the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees).
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21. A bed foot, by Lady Louisa Egerton. Watercolour and graphite on paper, 14.9 by 15 cm. (From an extra-illustrated copy of the 6th Duke of Devonshire’s Handbook of Chatsworth and Hardwick, London 1845, p.188B; Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, DEV/010030.6; reproduced by permission of the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees).
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22. The Library (now the State Drawing Room), Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, by William Collingwood-Smith. After 1858. Watercolour on paper, 35 by 51 cm. (sight size). (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1130053).
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23. Detail of Fig.22, showing parts of the crimson velvet bed curtains (or possibly cantoons) adapted to hang as screens over hinged rods.
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24. Detail of Fig.25, showing the bottom-left corner.
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25. Detail of a crimson velvet panel, with metal-thread embroidery reapplied. Modern hooks are fitted along the top edge (at top left in this view), indicating that this piece has been altered again in the twentieth century. Height 154.5 cm.; width of full panel 171.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129667.4).
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26. Detail of the striped silk and linen lining surviving on one large curtain panel of the crimson velvet bed, replacing the eighteenthcentury lining. c.1825–34. Width repeat (each pair of red and cream stripes) approximately 4.3 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129667.1).
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27 and 28. Two of three remnants of the cushion covers made from the crimson velvet bed hangings in about 1858. 47 by 59 cm. and 54.4 by 61 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129667.7 and 8).
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29. One of two similar long panels of crimson velvet, each pieced together, with the metal-thread embroidery reapplied (relined on the back in the twentieth century). 266 by 64 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129667.3).
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3. Bird’s-eye view of Whitehall Palace, London, attributed to Leonard Knyff. c. 1695–97. Brown ink and wash on paper, 78.7 by 55.3 cm. This view shows the state apartments used by Mary of Modena running eastwest away from the river and overlooking the formal gardens to the south (on the left of the image). The new apartments built for Mary of Modena in 1688, but only completed for Mary II, ran north–south along the river front. The new building, which overlooked the north half of the riverside privy garden, is shown with six bays and a central pediment. (Westminster City Library, London).
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30. Stool squab, with embroidery mounted on later velvet, trimmed with a single cord on each side. Beech frame with original linen or hemp base cloth, c.42 by c.64 by c.14.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127754.1).
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31. Stool squab similar to the squab in Fig.30, but with embroidery of a different pattern. Beech frame with original linen or hemp base cloth, embroidery remounted on later velvet, c.42 by c.64 by c.14.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127754.2).
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32. Stool squab, with embroidery matching Fig.31 mounted on older (original?) velvet, trimmed with two cords on each side. Replaced softwood frame with jute (?) base cloth and presumed twentiethcentury internal upholstery, c.42 by c.64 by c.14.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127754.3).
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33. Stool squab, with embroidery matching Fig.30, otherwise similar to the squab in Fig.32. Replaced softwood frame with jute(?) base cloth and presumed twentieth-century internal upholstery, covered with older (original?) velvet, c.42 by c.64 by c.14.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127754.4).
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34. Stool squab, with embroidery matching Figs.31 and 32; with the original beech frame and linen or hemp base cloth as in Figs.30–31, and older (original?) velvet and trimming as in Figs.32–33, c.42 by c.64 by c.14.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1127754.5).
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35. One of the original squabs, beech with linen or hemp base cloth, now divorced from its stool-frame. Re-covered in modern velvet, with embroidery possibly reclaimed from the rescued hangings after the bed’s demolition, 42 by 64 by 14.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129636).
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36. Detail of Fig.35, showing copper thread where the gilding has been lost.
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37. The underside of the squab in Fig.30, showing the later velvet nailed to the original beech frame and linen or hemp base cloth. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire).
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38. The underside of the squab in Fig.33, showing the softwood frame and jute base cloth, and the extensions to the embroidered section of the older velvet, lined with glazed cotton(?). (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire).
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39. Elements of the crimson velvet bed, mounted and framed in the twentieth century, before 1956. Frame 94 by 103 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129566).
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4. A state bed made for Nils Bielke, Swedish ambassador to Louis XIV. French, c.1682. Velvet hangings with applied silk embroidery, on a wooden frame, 375 by 205 by 155 cm. This is a lit à la duchesse (a form without foot posts), but is shown here with the single pair of curtains arranged around the foot corners, separated from the cantoons at the head end. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NMK 1/1914).
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40. Six motifs of metal-thread embroidery on a vellum backing, outlined in a red silk twist thread; probably from the crimson velvet bed. Length of putto (wing tip to toe) 24.5 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129667.9–14).
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5. Detail of the bed in Fig.4, showing the counterpane.
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6. Detail of the embroidered velvet hangings of the bed in Fig.1, showing part of a narrow and a broad border, almost certainly repositioned. See also Figs.24 and 25. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129667.4)
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8. Detail of a map of the parish of St James’s, Westminster, by Richard Bloome, showing Berkeley House, Piccadilly (‘Portugal Street’). c.1685– 89. (British Library, London; Bridgeman Images).
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9. Three bed feet made for the bed shown in Fig.1 (the one on the right is from the head end, the others are from the foot end), attributed to Thomas Roberts. c.1697–1702. Walnut, height of each 19 cm. (National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, NT 1129346.1-3).
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7. Devonshire House (formerly Berkeley House), Piccadilly, London, drawn shortly before 1733, showing the Duke of Devonshire’s improvements of 1696–97. Watercolour on paper, 17.1 by 25.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
Article
A sartorial portrait of Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda by Piero della Francesca
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 720–737
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Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt (Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt)
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1. Flagellation of Christ with figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. c.1456–57. Egg tempera and oil on panel, 67.5 by 91 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Bridgeman Images).
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10. Detail of the Communion of the Apostles, by Justus of Ghent, showing the donor figures. 1473–74. Oil on panel. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Scala Archives; courtesy the Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo).
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11. Horsewoman of Coins, by the workshop of Bonifacio Bembo. Before 1447. Paint and tooled gold on paper, 18.9 by 9 cm. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven CT).
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12. Detail from St Gregory the Great and St Matthias, by Masolino, showing the cope of St Gregory the Great. c.1428–29. Tempera and oil on panel, transferred to fibreboard. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda and Federico di Montefeltro, by Ambrogio Barocci. 1470s. Cesane stone, 50 by 110 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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3. Detail of Fig.4, showing the donor figures, Guidubaldo di Montefeltro, Count Federico di Montefeltro and Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda.
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4. The Lamentation of Christ, by Francesco di Giorgio. c.1473. Bronze, 85 by 58 cm. (S. Maria del Carmelo, Venice; Scala Archives).
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5. Medal of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti (obverse), by Pisanello. c.1441. Bronze, diameter 10.3 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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6. Detail of an altar frontal with the Visconti device of the dove and motto ‘à bon droit’. Italy, c.1450–60. Red velvet with a single-height pile with a design in gold pattern wefts and silver brocaded wefts, 98 by 241 cm. (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan; Scala Archive).
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7. Federico di Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and his son Guidubaldo, by Pedro Berruguete. c.1476. Oil on panel, 138 by 82.5 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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8. Luca Pacioli and Guidubaldo di Montefeltro, attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari. 1495. Oil on panel, 99 by 120 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Photo Scala, Florence).
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9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body of Christ.
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13. Detail of a cope with the Medici coat of arms and devices. Italy, 1470s or 1480s. Red velvet with single-height cut pile with a design in gold bouclé pattern wefts and allucciolato effect, 278 by 152 cm. (Museo d’arte sacra dell’Abbazia di Vallombrosa).
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14. Detail of the cope shown in Fig.13 with the motif of the Medici coat of arms covered by a roundel of St Giovanni Gualberto embroidered in silk and gold. Italy, c.1494.
Article
A tale of two velvets in works by Jaume Huguet and Piero della Francesca
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 713–719
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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1. Consecration of St Augustine, by Jaume Huguet. c.1463–75. Tempera on panel, 250 by 193 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
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10. Detail from Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, by Piero della Francesca. 1452–56. Fresco. (S. Francesco, Arezzo; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Flagellation of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. c.1456–57. Egg tempera and oil on panel, 67.5 by 91 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Bridgeman Images).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the figure in the right foreground dressed in blue.
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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figure in the right foreground wearing a green cope.
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9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the same sprig motif as in Fig.8.
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2. Blue velvet cloth of gold of tissue. Italy, 1450–75. 126 by 57 cm. (repeat 84.5 by 57 cm.). (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; photograph Christoph von Viràg).
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3. Panel of green velvet cloth of gold of tissue (three loom widths sewn together). Italy, third quarter of the fifteenth century, 110 by 239 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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7. Blue velvet cloth with two heights of cut-silk pile, voided and brocaded with gold. Italy, c.1450–70. 96.8 by 41.8 cm. (repeat, 65.5 by 28.5 cm.). (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; photograph Christoph von Viràg).
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8. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sprig motif.
Book Review
Der Schatz der Marienkirche zu Danzig: Liturgische Gewänder und textile Objekte aus dem späten Mittelalter (Berner Forschungen zur Geschichte der textilen Künste, 1)
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 635-637
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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Der Schatz der Marienkirche zu Danzig: Liturgische Gewänder und textile Objekte aus dem späten Mittelalter (Berner Forschungen zur Geschichte der textilen Künste, 1) By Birgitt Borkopp-Restle. 392 pp. incl. 191 col. + 156 b. & w. ills. (Didymos, Affalterbach, 2020), €48. ISBN 978–3–939020–71–4. | :
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4. Virgin and Child, detail of the side of a funeral pall. 15th-century Italian silk velvet, possibly embroidered in Germany in the second half of the 15th century with silk and gold thread, pearls, coral and metal sequins. (St Anne’s Museum, Lübeck).
Book Review
Tudor Textiles
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 294-295
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Hayward, Maria (Hayward, Maria)
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Tudor Textiles By Eleri Lynn. 208 pp. incl. 132 col. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, in association with Historic Royal Palaces, London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–0–300–24412–0. | :
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3. Detail of the Stonyhurst chasuble. 15th century, much altered. Cloth of gold and red silk damask velvet. (© Stonyhurst College; courtesy Historic Royal Palaces).
Book Review
Samte vor 1500 (Die Textilsammlung der Abegg-Stiftung, 9: Mittelalterliche Textilien, 4). By Michael Peter
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1062-1064
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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Samte vor 1500 (Die Textilsammlung der Abegg-Stiftung, 9: Mittelalterliche Textilien, 4) By Michael Peter. 2 vols, 584 pp. incl. 192 col. ills. (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, 2019), CHF280. ISBN 978–3–905014–61–7. | :
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3. Rear of a chasuble. Italy, 1450–60. Crimson velvet with three heights of cut silk pile, voided and brocaded with gold, with additional effects of gold weft loops, 110.5 by 68.5 cm. (Abegg- Stiftung, Riggisberg, inv. no.1764a).
Exhibition Review
Textiles in medieval Florence. Florence
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 235-237
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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6. Coronation of the Virgin, by Jacopo di Cione. 1372–73. Tempera on panel, 350 by 192.3 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
4. Pourpoint (quilted doublet) of Charles de Blois, France. c.1364. Lampas silk made in Iran or Central Asia, padded with raw cotton and lined with linen, 87 by 51.5 cm. (Musée des Tissus, Lyon; exh. Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
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5. Fragment of voided satin velvet brocaded in gold, Venice. Early fifteenth century, 48 by 64 cm. (Museo Nazionale de Bargello, Florence; exh. Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Publication Received
Liturgische Gewänder in der Schwarzen Kirche zu Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen (Liturgical vestments in the Black Church at Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen), by Evelin Wetter, with contributions by Corinna Kienzler and Ágnes Ziegler and weave analysis by Corinna Kienzler
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 747
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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Book Review
Seta Oro Cremisi: Segreti e tecnologia alla corte dei Visconti e degli Sforza
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 747-748
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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Seta Oro Cremisi: Segreti e tecnologia alla corte dei Visconti e degli Sforza | editor: Buss, Chiara
Article
A Mughal Personage Velvet
11/1973 | 848 | 115
Pages: 721-725+727
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Kahlenberg, Mary (Kahlenberg, Mary)
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Non-western art unattributed:
22. Velvet Polychrome, Safavid, Early Seventeenth Century. (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, No.962.60).
Non-western art unattributed:
23. Velvet, Polychrome, Safavid, Early Seventeenth Century. (Cleveland Museum of Art, No.32.42.)
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24. Velvet polychrome Safavid Early Seventeenth Century. (Royal Ontario Museum Toronto No.960.257).
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25. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 122r. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
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26. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 50v. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
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27. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 72r. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
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28. Velvet, Polychrome, Mughal 1650-60. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, No.71.13.)
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29. Detail from the Velvet Reproduced in Fig.28.
Non-western art unattributed:
30. Mughal Painting of Europeans, Seventeenth Century. (Victoria & Albert Museum, I. M. 14-1913.)
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31. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 97v. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
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