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Damask silk, large leaves and flowers bouquets decoration, Genoa (?), Italy, early 18th century.
Damask is a fabric made with large, usually floral and stylized designs, in which the base is made of satin armour while the design are made from the same satin armour used on the reverse. The decorative effect is given by the brightness contrast between the straight satin of the base and the reverse satin of the motif.
The fabric has no reverse, even if you prefer to use the side where the design is formed by the texture as the front.

These fabrics have been widely used to make sacred vestments, tapestries, furniture covers, but also gala clothing.

Since the 17th century, following the Counter-Reformation, there was a clear differentiation in the field of fabric between clothing and furnishing fabrics. The clothing fabrics had smaller decorative patterns, while the furnishing fabrics had larger decorative patterns, more suitable for Baroque furnishings. To adapt to the carvings and gilding of the furniture, furnishing fabrics had to be even richer and more vibrant in colours, while maintaining a symmetrical setting.

This ruby-red damask satin fabric has a vertical decorative pattern consisting of the undulating winding of a gnarled trunk defined by large leaves and flowers bouquets.

Condition: excellent, without signs of wear.

Origin: Adolph Loewi, Venice, inventory number 8482; Alessandro Morandotti, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome.


Adolph Loewi (Munich 1888 - Hawaiian Islands 1977), honorary consul in Venice in 1923, was an antiquarian specialized in paintings, sculptures and decorative arts. He was among the most important antique dealers in the field of collectable ancient fabrics and costumes, selling both to the most important collectors of the time and to numerous museums in Europe and the United States.
Many pieces from the rich collection and textile archive of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) comes from purchases made by Loewi.

Adolph Loewi probably purchased this piece of damask satin before the Second World War. According to Katherine Loewi Robertson, daughter of Adolph Loewi and heir of the family business, the antiques purchased in Venice before the Second World War have a progressive inventory number lower than 9,300.

According to Katherine Loewi Robertson, the goods from her father's gallery with an inventory number greater than 9,300 were purchased by Morandotti in Rome during and after the war.

Dimensions: 2.40 x 0.52 m.

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