City Art Museum of St. Louis : Catalogue of a Collection of Textiles from Paris, Lent by Messrs. Bacri, Mrs. Chauncey Blair, and Mr. Henry Golden Dearth
St. Louis, MO, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1913. Softcover. Bw illustrated cover with black text, map of museum printed on inside of cover. (4) 5-52 pp. Features many bw illustrations. "The selection for the present exhibition has been made with a view to illustrating the most important periods of the history of textile art. This great and comprehensive collection of priceless fabrics, lent to the Albright Art Gallery through the kindness and generosity of Messrs. Bacri of Paris - well known and revered critics whose position has enabled them from time to time to obtain rare specimens of ancient textiles of remarkable interest and beauty - dates from the first years of the Christian era up to the eighteenth century, and includes priceless examples of Coptic, Persian, Sassanide, Arabian-Italian, Byzantine, Spanish, Hispano-Arabian, German, Swiss, French and English stuffs. There are priests' vestments, chasubles, orphreys, copes, altar-cloths, fragments of brocades; velvets, rugs, and draperies. VG- Remnants of a sticker at front cover, some smudging of wraps, otherwise very clean copy .

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Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; European Textiles ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Decorative Arts