A pair of embroidered orphrey panel sections, Spanish or Italian, circa 1500
REF: 1213
Each worked in coloured silks in laid, long and short stitches and applied metallic threads, on a blue linen ground, with traces of velvet pile, one designed with John the Evangelist, the other the Virgin and Child, each standing within a canopied niche adorned with statues, garlands, fruiting vines, lilies and paired birds. Losses. Framed within an oak cushion-moulded frame covered in terracotta silk velvet, glazed.
- Height 56 cm / 22 "
- Width 34 cm / 13 1⁄2"
- Depth 2.5 cm / 1"
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