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Design

1350-1399 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Venice (made)
Venice (made)
Lucca (made)

Design (recto) for a woven silk with a strong diagonal pattern repeat of vine leaves, alternating with a griffin-like creatures, part eagle part dragon, and a a hound-like creature. Design (verso) for a woven silk or for embroidery with on the left three hares in a circle above which is a chalice within a hexagon and on the right are three ducks in water above which is the dove of the Holy Spirit.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Textiles
Object type
Design
Materials and techniques
pen and bistre on vellum
Bistre
Vellum (Skin)
Drawing
Brief description
Design for a woven silk, Italian, Venetian or Lucchese, second half of the fourteenth century
Physical description
Design (recto) for a woven silk with a strong diagonal pattern repeat of vine leaves, alternating with a griffin-like creatures, part eagle part dragon, and a a hound-like creature. Design (verso) for a woven silk or for embroidery with on the left three hares in a circle above which is a chalice within a hexagon and on the right are three ducks in water above which is the dove of the Holy Spirit.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.3cm
  • Width: 14.4cm
Production typeDesign
Marks and inscriptions
Blind stamp of crown within an oval with an oval band of lettering around the crown (illegible inscription). (Science and Art Department blind stamp for the South Kensington Museum in the top left corner. The lettering usually says ' SCIENCE & ART DEPARTMENT' around the outer band and then 'ART LIBRARY' beneath the crown.)
Subject depicted
Griffins
Places depicted
Venice
Lucca (Town)
Lucca (Province)
Bibliographic references
  • Coutts, Howard, Evans, Mark and Monnas, Lisa, 'An early Italian drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum'. The Burlington Magazine. Volume CL, number 1263, June 2008, pp. 389-392, ill.
  • Hollberg, Cecilie ed. Textiles and Wealth in 14th Century Florence: Wool, Silk, Painting Florence: Ministero dei Beni de delle Attivita Culturali e del Turismo Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze and Giunti, 2017, pp.174-175
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
2328

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2008
Record URL
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