Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Magnificent Fabrics From Spain, Portugal and Italy: Rich Velvets, Brocades, Damasks, Embroideries and Tapestries, Including Superb Renaissance Examples; The Collection of Messrs. V. And L. Benguiat, Paris and Florence; Including Property Dispersed in Liquidation of B. Benguiat Co., Inc., New York
The present catalogue contains the important collection ofsilver and embroidered with armorial bearings, a piece of the high cst rarity. As opposed to this formal splendor are the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese embroideries of the seventeenth and eigh teenth centuries in which attention is lavished on the careful work ing out of detail; the meticulous shading and contouring of ?owers and fruits, point St. Cyi - the refinement of petit point - and such niceties give us a truly incredible picture of the patience, industry and technical skill of the embroiderers of the time. These quali ties are exhibited nowhere more strikingly than In the important Italian silk embroidery hanging [no. Probably used as the tester Of 'a bedstead and heavy with gorgeous fruit and ?oral dec oration about the painted figure of a sleeping cherub.
The tapestries offered comprise Flemish, Aubusson and Felletin verdures, a sixteenth century Brussels tapestry The Edict of Cyrus [no. With luxuriant wide borders; an English Renaissance tapestry, Hercules and Antaeus [no. A French tapestry of 1540 with beautiful rose border; and an important Brussels Re naissance hanging [no The Flight of Cornelia.
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