Antique Silk Brocade Hanging Baroque Medici Design needlework_picture with their matching Dalmatics

with their matching Dalmatics

Full loom width  SIZE  55 inches x 32 inches   (140cm x 81cm)

Dating from late 16th Century

colour and design

5 inches deep  (91cm x 5cm)

Antique Silk Brocade Hanging Baroque Medici Design needlework_picture with their matching DalmaticsAntique Silk Brocade Hanging Italy circa 1800 The large impressive hanging made up from five individual pieces stitched together Magenta and gold silk woven with a Baroque Medici design Finished on two sides with late 18th early 19th century Florentine silk tassel trim re lined at some point in cream cotton Beautiful gently time worn, faded grandeur appeal with some lovely historic hand darned repairs. Some rubbing lifting to gold silk surface threads