Rare episcopal miter embroidered with ecclesiastical... - Lot 90 - Coutau-Bégarie

Lot 90
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Rare episcopal miter embroidered with ecclesiastical... - Lot 90 - Coutau-Bégarie
Rare episcopal miter embroidered with ecclesiastical arms, Spain, early sixteenth century, gold cloth miter on cardboard core, sparkling embroidery in gold thread guipure and canetille on cordonet decorated with friezes and acanthus flowered amounts punctuated with colored glass cabochons in closed setting. Fanons with the same decoration, the ends fringed with taper, stamped with illegible coat of arms with episcopal hat accompanied by a cord with six tassels. Lining in crimson taffeta, (missing four cabochons, some small accidents), H. 40 cm. A similar mitre reproduced in photograph in a Maciet Album, series Religious Vestments no 297-2 Old handwritten legend in Spanish locating this mitre preserved in the treasure of the Cathedral of Oviedo in Asturias.
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