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Property of a Private European Collection AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SILK VELVET, VOIDED, PILE ON PILE, BROCADED AND BOUCLÉ COMPOSITE PANEL, POSSIBLY FLORENCE,MID-16TH CENTURY composite panel, comprised of four joined panel widths, and four smaller panel width fragments joined across the top, mounted within a box frame Box frame: 106cm high, 244cm wide, 3cm deep; Textile panel approximately RELATED LITERATUREGiuseppe Cantelli, Il Museo Stibbert a Firenze, II Vols, Milan, 1974, Vol. I., cat.2046, p.174 & Vol. II, fig.355.Peggy Stoltz Gilfoy, Fabrics in Celebration from the Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, no.96, ill.Rosalia Bonito Fanelli, Il Museo del Tessuto a Prato: la donazione Bertini, Florence, 1975, cat.7., p.64.Monique King and Donald King European Textiles in the Keir Collection 400 BC to 1800 AD, London, 1990, Chp. 5, Medieval and Renaissance Embroidery, 900 - 1550, pp.88-111, No.72-74, pp.108-111.Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969, pl. 147. Lisa Monnas, Renaissance Velvets, London, 2012, pp.120-121, Nr.35.Lisa Monnas, Princes and Painters: Silk fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1330-1550, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008.Roberta Orsi Landini, Velvets in the Collection of the Costume Gallery in Florence, Abegg-Stiftung and Mauro Pagliai, Florence, 2017.J. M. Rogers (translated and edited), Hülye Tezcan and Selma Delibas, The Topkapi Saray Museum: Costumes, Embroideries and other Textiles, London, 1986, p.153, pl. no.31 (and detail).Alice Zrebiec, Textiles in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (Winter, 1995-96), p.45. Please note: Condition 11 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot. To view Shipping Calculator, please click here