Allegory on the silk industry in Amsterdam, Allegory on the silk industry in Amsterdam: the City Virgin, flanked by Wisdom (Minerva) and Commerce (Mercury), receives bales of silk. Below the show the river gods of Amstel and 't IJ with between them in a profile of the city of Amsterdam with ships in the foreground .. At the top two putti with the arms of the De Neufville family and attributes belonging to the silk weaving mill, such as reels, bobbins, scissors and a design for a fabric pattern., silk (material, textile industry), Minerva as patroness, specific aspects, allegorical aspects of M

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