Textile Arts
Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Description
Silk tent stitch embroidery depicting scenes of a queen kneeling before laurel around beardless men in classical dress (Alexander?) (top) and a woman with an incense burner and Cupid in a landscape (bottom), mounted on red cut silk velvet.
Dimensions
49.5 x 92.08 x 92.08 cm (19 1/2 x 36 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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