Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 876
A SILK AND METAL THREAD RONDEL
Estimate £300 - £500
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Description
A SILK AND METAL THREAD RONDEL
POSSIBLY OTTOMAN, 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY
worked in coloured silks and metal threads on a rose pink ground depicting a scene of a quadriga, after the Shroud of Charlemagne, inside a border of flowering foliage
23.7cm diameter
Catalogue Note
The Shroud of Charlemagne is a 9th century textile woven in gilt thread on a Tyrian purple silk ground.