Illustrated catalogue of the extraordinary collection of art treasures and antiquities acquired during the past year by Professore Commendatore Elia Volpi ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries [on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1917] (1917)
Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938, Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922, Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924, American Art Association · New York : American Art Galleries · leaf 75
147—Pair of Sixteenth Century Italian Embroidered VelvetChasuble HoodsSpade-shaped hoods of red velvet applique with shield-shapedescutcheons surrounded by scrolled acanthus leaves, volutes andfloral pendants embroidered in gold and colored silks, withcoats-of-arms and surmounted by strawberry-leaf… … 148—Square of Sixteenth Centuey Italian Velvet with Em-broidered EscutcheonSquares of red velvet patterned with a diaper of quatrefoilscrollings in silk cord and embroidered in the center with aquatrefoil medallion bordered with silk cord and containing ashield-shaped escutcheon embroidered in gold…
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