1267.
Tissue, silk upon linen; ground, white; design, broad circles filled in with floriated ornamentation, bearing in the middle a five-petaled purple flower. Italian, early 14th century. 7 inches by 3 inches.
1267A.
Another Piece of the same Tissue. 12-1/4 inches by 2-1/4 inches.
The thread in the warp of this stuff is more than usually thick;
and so sparingly is the silk employed on its pattern, that in its best days
it could have looked but poor.
1268.
Silk and Cotton Damask; ground, yellow silk mixed with cotton; design, a sprinkling of eight-rayed voided stars, in dusky purple. Italian, 14th century. 5 inches by 2-1/2 inches.
A thin stuff for linings.
1269.
Silk and Gold Damask; ground, light fawn-colour in silk; design, a large conventional flower enclosing another flower of the same character, which is filled in with a double-headed eagle displayed, and the spaces between the large flowers diapered with foliage shooting from a sort of fir-*cone, at the top of which are birds in pairs hovering over the plant and having a long feather drooping from the head, all in gold thread. Sicilian, early 14th century. 10-3/4 inches by 9-3/4 inches.
Though not so spirited in the drawing of its pattern, and the gold
so poor and bad that it has become almost lost to the eye, this stuff is a
valuable item in the collection. The eagle, with its double head, and
