TWO MID-16TH CENTURY ORPHREY PANELS

TWO MID-16TH CENTURY ORPHREY PANELS

ITALIAN OR SPANISH, C.1550
each worked in embroidered, laid and couched metallic and coloured silk threads, with appliqué silk and couched silk cords, one depicting the Madonna and Child, atop St. Peter within a foliate decorated niche, and St. Catherine, the other depicting St. Paul holding a book and sceptre, within a foliate decorated niche, above St. Lucia holding a golden platter bearing two eyes in one hand, a palm branch in the other, mounted (2)

117.5 x 22.8cm (max)

Provenance

With Huntington Antiques, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.