A PAIR OF ITALIAN PINK SILK EPISCOPAL GAUNTLETS

A PAIR OF ITALIAN PINK SILK EPISCOPAL GAUNTLETS

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

worked with silk yarn, silver metal thread and lace, in satin and couching stitches on knitted silk and damask ground, decorated with scrolling foliage to the cuffs and a circular medallion to the hands, with a bishop's crest, displayed in a modern Perspex case (2)

Provenance

The Ikle Collection, Christie's South Kensington, Fine Costume & Textiles, 4th December 2007, lot 2.

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.132 for a discussion of these gauntlets.