April 22, 2024
Antique Black Silk Manton de Manilla Spanish Canton Piano Shawl.
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The pictures do not do it justice. Antique Black Silk Manton de Manilla Spanish Canton Piano Shawl. This wonderful antique shawl is from my great grandmothers family, who were from Spain. This shawl has traveled many miles to America. This item is an exquisite densely hand embroidered manton de Manilla dating to the early to mid 19th century. The Manila galleon trade was started in 1565 by Andres de Urdaneta, who discovered the route from Manila to Mexico. The Spanish king allowed the Filipinos to trade with the Chinese in Canton. They brought silks, ivory, furniture, porcelain, lacquerware, and spices from Canton to Manila and the Chinese merchants were paid for these goods with silver coins from Mexico. One of the items that came from Canton to Manila was the silk shawl. It was a square piece of cloth with plenty of very fine embroidery. This shawl became known as the manton de Manila, although it was not made in Manila, but was made in Canton. The manton de Manila soon became very popular in Seville, Andalucia and in Latin America and became emblematic of the bohemian art scene in America. The embroidered shawls from Canton had many themes, Chinese people, garden scenes, pagodas, birds and flowers. This amazing shawl has hand embroidery of a Pheonix bird as well as Pagodas with Asian folk people. There are also finely embroidered
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