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A work made of wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with wrapping outlining wefts and areas of 4:4 plain interlacing of gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk wefts.

Medici Armorial

1643/44

After a cartoon by Lorenzo Lippi (1606–1665), painted before April 27, 1643 Woven at the Medici workshop under the direction of Pietro van Asselt (c. 1600–1644), before June 15, 1644 Italy, Florence

Italy

Wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with wrapping outlining wefts and areas of 4:4 plain interlacing of gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk wefts

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