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Images showing brocaded motifs on towels, napkins, and other such linens. For examples on larger textiles, see the tablecloths. For more information on textiles in this style, see Compleat Anachronist 114 (“Perugia Towels”), Tovaglie Perugine (L’arte umbra alla Mostra di Perugia), or Banbagia a la Perugina: A Bibliography of Sources on Perugian Wares.
Extant towels and fragments
- Rocchi collection, textile from the beginning of the 14th century
- Chicago 1899.8, 15th century
- KMKG/MRAH Errera 65g, 15th century
- KMKG/MRAH Errera 326, 15th century
- V&A T.12-1916, 15th century
- Rocchi collection, textile from the 15th century
- 15th century towel at the Museo Piersanti di Matelica
- Cluny 23800, fourth quarter of the 15th century
- Met 33.39.1, 15th century
- Cleveland 1916.1397, 15th century (or later)
- Cleveland 1917.281, 15th-16th century
- MFA 06.43, 15th-16th century
- MFA 06.110, 15th-16th century
- V&A 487-1884, 15th-16th century
- V&A 1017-1900, 15th-16th century
- Met 18.32, 15th-16th century
- Met 1974.283.1, 15th-16th century
- Met 1974.283.2, 15th-16th century
- Met 1974.283.3, 15th-16th century
- Cluny 23888, 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
- RISD 12.020, 1500
- MFA 38.1181, 16th century
- Met 09.50.2797, 16th-17th century
- MFA 06.42, 17th century
- Many more additional undated examples from the MFA; search for "linen towel"
- A few more in Le tovaglie perugine: Un suggestivo incontro con gli antichi manufatti tessili umbri (Antiquariato)
Depictions of towels, napkins, etc.
- Detail from The Last Supper by Pietro Lorenzetti, c. 1320
- The Luttrell family at dinner, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 208r), c. 1325-1335
- The Birth of Mary by Pietro Lorenzetti, 1342
- The Birth of the Virgin by Giovanni da Milano, 1365
- Frying, Tacuinum sanitatis (Casanatense 4182), late 14th century
- Hunters pausing for refreshment, Book of the Hunt (BNF Fr. 616, fol. 67), beginning of the 15th century
- January, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, workshop of the Limbourg Brothers, 1412-1416
- Detail from The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano, 1423
- The Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, c. 1427 (detail)
- Birth of the Virgin with other Scenes from her Life, c. 1428-1439
- Niche with Wash Basin from the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, 1432
- The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1440
- Visitation, a book of hours (PML M.56, fol. 36r), c. 1450-1475
- Pilate washes his hands, c. 1450-1500 (detail)
- Crucifixion by Antonio da Fabriano, 1452
- Wedding-feast, Histoire d’Olivier de Castille et d’Artus d’Algarbe (BNF Fr. 12574, fol. 181v)
- The Birth of Mary, c. 1460-1465 (detail)
- Christ Before Pilate, c. 1470-1478 (detail)
- The Birth of Mary, c. 1475-1485 (detail)
- Adoration of the Christ Child by Pinturicchio, c. 1490
- Christ Before Pilate, c. 1490-1500 (detail)
- The Rose-Miracle of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, c. 1495-1505 (detail)
- Christ Before Pilate by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500-1502 (detail)
- David and Bathsheba, a book of hours (Douce 72, fol. 45v), first quarter of the 16th century
- Exorcism, 1512 (detail)
- The Birth of St. Nicholas, 1514 (detail)
- Revival after stillbirth, c. 1518-1522 (detail)
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