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- Author after a cartoon by an artist from the circle of Cornelis Floris and Cornelis Bos
- Date of production ca. 1555
- Place of creation Brussels
- Dimensions height: 52 cm, width: 73 cm
- ID no. ZKWawel 104
- Museum Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collection
- Availability in stock
- Subjects daily life, nature
- Technique weaving
- Material wool, silk, silver thread, gold thread
- Collector collection of King Sigismund Augustus
- Object copyright Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collection
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, 2015
- Tags Wawel , manor house , Renaissance , fabric , 3D plus , King , plants , public domain
One of six furniture tapestries in the shape of a horizontal rectangle with the SA initials of the King. It belongs to a group of textiles used to cover chairs. Eleven of such textiles have been preserved to this day (others were decorated with bouquets of flowers in vases). The small horizontal tapestries were used as backrests of furniture. The initials under a closed crown, woven with a gold thread, were placed in a blue field surrounded by an oval wreath. On the axis of the field, at the top and bottom, there are two masks – a singing one and a sleeping one. Slender vases with bouquets of fruit and flowers (columbines and anemones) are placed on the sides.
more One of six furniture tapestries in the shape of a horizontal rectangle with the SA initials of the King. It belongs to a group of textiles used to cover chairs. Eleven of such textiles have been preserved to this day (others were decorated with bouquets of flowers in vases). The small horizontal tapestries were used as backrests of furniture.
The initials under a closed crown, woven with a gold thread, were placed in a blue field surrounded by an oval wreath. On the axis of the field, at the top and bottom, there are two masks – a singing one and a sleeping one. Slender vases with bouquets of fruit and flowers (columbines and anemones) are placed on the sides.
The crimson background of the entire composition is the same as in other heraldic and monogram tapestries of Sigismund II Augustus.
Just as in the case of the large tapestries with grotesques (inv. no. 91-103), the King's monogram identifies the owner and is an element of royal dignity, present in the interiors of the royal castle.
The commission for this kind of smaller tapestry (to be used as furniture upholstery, textiles to be hung over doors and windows or rectangular friezes to be hung under window sills) proves there was a consistent and uniform concept for the fitting out of the Wawel residence.
Elaborated by Magdalena Piwocka (Wawel Royal Castle), editorial team of Małopolska's Virtual Museums, |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland License.
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