Antependium

Unknown

16th century · Silk and metal thread · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

A great ornamental development of the ancient palmette motif was inseparably linked in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Spain and Italy with the development of patterned velvet weaving. This particularly magnificent example of the combination appears also in a cope at the Hispanic Society.

Artist

Unknown

Date

16th century

Medium

Silk and metal thread

Culture

Spanish

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966