The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 3, 2023

Velvet Fragment

c. 1385–1402

Italy, Milan ?, late 14th-early 15th Century

Velvet (cut and brocaded); silk and metal

Overall: 26.7 x 21 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1918.36

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscription on scrolls: "a bon droit." [NOTE: "a bon droit" is the French motto of Giangaleazzo Visconti, despot of Milan from 1385 to his death in 1402.]

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