Italian 18th Century Silk Crest with Flowers and Rare Wheel
Italian 18th Century Silk Crest with Flowers and Rare Wheel
Italian 18th Century Silk Crest with Flowers and Rare Wheel
Italian 18th Century Silk Crest with Flowers and Rare Wheel
Italian 18th Century Silk Crest with Flowers and Rare Wheel

Italian 18th Century Silk Crest with Flowers and Rare Wheel

－ $850.00
$850.00

An 18th century Italian crest stitch entirely with silk threads of sky blue and beige. Featuring a Ducal crown with silk jewels in red and yellow above a sky-blue shield with sexfoil flowers that represents hope and joy, a fess across the middle representing a military belt and a wheel representing fortune. Typically, a crest represents some kind of achievement by the bearer rather than representing a single family. The crest has been hand-stitched onto sky blue silk velvet and edged with a French 19th century gold metallic trim embossed with clusters of grapes and leaves. Finished with a French 19th century 3” gold metallic fringe.

Condition: minor wear to the shield ground that is typical of something over 200 years old.


SIZE

Height Width  Depth
15 1/2 in 20 1/2  in 3 in