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The front is made of gilt leather, a fragment of a panel showing some fruit, flowers and scrolling leaves. Painted in dark (black?) lines on a red-glaze ground. The leather has been punched with four different stamps. 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There are nine similar, but not identical gilt leather cushions (inventory numbers unknown) in Museo Bardini, Florence.  \r\n\nBought for £1 7s 0d. from A. Johnson and Sons, 85, Wigmore Street, W., RP T22785/ 1903.\r\n\r\n\"Cushion of leather covered with silver foil lacquered to represent gilding, stamped and painted, the back is of plain leather, partly stained. The front represents an incomplete design (probably portion of a hangings) consisiting of an arrangement of fruit, flowers and leaves. On the back is a diaper of triangles. Each corner is finished off with a leather tassel. Spanish; 17th century (?). Torn, rubbed and damaged.\"\n\nThe use of such cushions in church is discussed in Jean-Pierre Fournet, <u>Cuirs Dorées, \"Cuirs de Courdoue\", un art Européen </u>(Château de Saint-Remy-en-l'Eau: Editions Monelle Hayot, 2019), pp. 294-295. They were used to support the missal (Mass book) on the altar during the celebration of Mass. \n\n","historicalContext":"Such cushions were made for the use of clergy and servers on the altar during Mass and other ceremonies in church.","briefDescription":"Gilt leather cushion, with a thin filling, with gilt leather tassels on the four corners. The front is made of a fragment of a gilt leather panel, showing some fruit, flowers and scrolling leaves. Painted in dark (black?) lines on a red-glaze ground. 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