Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the MuseumRock, Daniel
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Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum
Rock, Daniel
Art objects -- England -- London -- Catalogs; Textile fabrics
will be found that these colours alternate with the alternating tints
of the panes upon which they are sewed.
So often do the passages in the romance here figured correspond with
certain parts in the wild legend of our own far-famed “Sir Guy of
Warwick,” that, at first sight, one might be led to think that as his
renowned story was carried all through Christendom, we had before us
his mighty feats and triumph over the dragon in Northumberland, set
forth in this handiwork of some lady-reader of his story.
1371.
Worsted Work; ground, green; design, conventional flowers in yellow,
with, at one end, a border of foliated boughs, the leaves of which are
partly green, partly red, and an edging of a band made up of white,
green, yellow, scarlet straight lines on the inner side; on three sides
there is a narrow listing of bluish-green lace. German, 15th century. 4
feet 3¼ inches by 1 foot 10 inches.
In all probability this was intended and used as a carpet for some
small altar-step. It is worked upon coarse canvas.
1372.
Piece of Needlework; pattern, upon bell-shaped spaces of silver thread,
flowers mostly white and shaded yellow, divided by a sort of imperial
high-peaked cap of blue shaded white, arising out of a royal crown.
17th century. 12½ inches by 7½ inches.
1372A.
Border to an Altar-cloth, embroidered; ground, crimson silk; design,
animals and birds amid branching foliage and fleurs-de-lis, well
raised in white and gold; the upper part linen, wrought into lozenges
alternately crimson and yellow, braced together by a fret, and filled
in with narrow bars saltire wise. German, 15th century. 3 feet 10¼
inches by 11½ inches.
Among the animals is the symbolic lamb and flag, with a chalice
underneath its head. From the exact similarity of style in the
ornamentation and needlework, there can be no doubt but the same hand
which wrought the stole, No. 1322, worked this piece, and probably
both formed a portion of the same set of ornaments for the chantry
chapel of some small family.
1373.
Cope; ground, green raised-velvet; design, amid leaves of a heart-shape
or cordate, freckled with a kind of check, large conventional
artichokes. The orphreys are of web, figured, on a golden ground, with
saints, inscription, and flower-bearing trees; the hood is ornamented
with applied cut-work and needle embroidery, and the morse is of plain
velvet. The raised velvet is Italian, 16th century; the orphrey web,
German, 16th century; the embroidery of the hood, 16th century. 9 feet
2 inches by 3 feet 11¼ inches.
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