by a low circular paling, and amid two large conventional floriations; at the top of one of these are two squirrels sitting upright, or sejant, all in gold. Italian, late 14th century. 17-1/2 inches by 10-3/4 inches.
Unfortunately this curious well-figured and interesting design is
somewhat wasted upon materials so faded, as scarcely to show it now.
The foliation is rather thick and heavy. In Dr. Bock's work,
"Geschichte der Liturgischen Gewänder des Mittelalters," 1 Band,
1 Lieferung, pl. xiv. may be found this stuff, nicely figured.
1321.
Small Piece of Embroidery; background, canvas diapered with lozenges in brown thread; foreground, once partly strewed with streaks of gold; design, two men bearded and clad in long garments, seemingly personages of the Old Law, talking to each other. Florentine, 15th century.
With quite an Italian and Florentine character about them, these
two figures, both worked in silk, have no great merit; though there
are some good folds in the brown mantle, shot with green, of the
hooded individual standing on the left-hand. That it has been cut
away from some larger piece is evident, but what the original served
for, whether a sacred or secular purpose, it is impossible now to say.
1322.
Stole; ground, light blue silk; design, a thin bough roving along the stole's whole length in an undulating line, and sprouting out into fan-like leaves, and small flowers, and in a white raised cord, narrowly edged with crimson silk and gold thread. At one expanded end is the Holy Lamb upon a golden ground; at the other, the dove, emblem of the Holy Ghost, alighting upon flowers. German, 15th century. 8 feet 6-1/2 inches by 3-3/4 inches.
