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Antique Decorative Pillows and Textiles
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A Pair of circa 1900 French Voided Silk Velvet Pillows of a 15th Century Italian Design
 
 
   
  A pair of antique, circa 1900, French cut and voided silk velvet pillows of a Genoese, Italian 16th century
design. This pair shows a voided pattern of blue/gray silk velvet pile with a pattern of leaves and foliage on
a flat ground of tan silk that’s farther enhanced with a design of palmettes, artichokes and garlands
woven in cream colored silk. Backed with vanilla colored silk velvet, trimmed with a gold metallic hand
tied fringe trim from Milan, Italy. Excellent clean condition.

Voided velvet: when areas of the ground are left free of pile. Since projecting pile-required quantities of silk
thread, voided velvet was less expensive to manufacture than solid-pile velvet or brocaded velvet.

 
Size: 18 " x 23 1/2"                Price: $3200.00                 Item: #PL06D09
         
   
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