Illustrated catalogue of Mr. Thomas B. Clarke's remarkable gathering of rare plates of many nations and beautiful old textiles (1916)
American Art Association, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F · New York : American Art Association · leaf 212
Fourth Afternoon … No. 688 ITALIAN VELVET LECTERN MAT {Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 21}/2 inches Brilliant, lustrous, emerald-green velvet, in three oblong panels, and end drops shaped in a serpentine scroll. Applied decoration in gold and silver braid and red, blue and white silk, in broad and…
Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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