Four-colour Velvet with Medici Armorial in Rosettes, 1450-1500. Creator: Unknown.

Four-colour Velvet with Medici Armorial in Rosettes, 1450-1500. Creator: Unknown.

2-729-231 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Four-colour Velvet with Medici Armorial in Rosettes, 1450-1500. This polychrome velvet displays the heraldic design of the Medici family of Florence, where it was probably made. The device of crimson balls on a yellow ground appears in the centers of the colourful rosettes. Gilt-metal thread forms the heraldic ground in more lavish examples. The striped selvage helps identify the late 15th-century dating. The rosette pattern created with four colours of pile warp is silhouetted on the ivory satin weave foundation, known as voided velvet. Its colour scheme and tile-like design have often been associated with influence from Islamic lands, most likely Turkey.


Image Details


Medium
  1. Silk, velvet: cut pile and voided

Picture Type
  1. Velvet

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 1372x5944
File Size : 23,893kb


Aliases

  1. 1943.67
  1. 123447
  1. 0940010601
  1. 1943.67
  1. 2-729-231
  1. 2729231

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