Panel for a cabinet door

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Panel for a cabinet door

museum
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
objectType
Panel for a cabinet door
Date
late 16th–early 17th century
Small panel of embroidery in high relief of a tree in an oval with an elaborate framework. The field is filled by an oak tree with dimensional leaves in shades of green. The trunk and branches are very dimensional, and are worked in silver metallic thread, now tarnished. At the base of the tree is a salamander, also in silver metallic thread. The background shows a landscape worked in pale silks with mountains and buildings, possibly a monastery. From the limbs of the tree hang crutches, a wax leg, and a censer.