and yellow, braced together by a fret, and filled in with narrow bars saltire wise. German, 15th century. 3 feet 10-1/4 inches by 11-1/2 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 11-1/4 inches.
The raised velvet, though now so torn and stitched together, is of a
very fine pile, and pleasing elaborate design. The hood is figured with
the Annunciation, and the faces are applied pieces of white silk with the
features and hair brought out by the needle in coloured silks; the other
parts of the embroidery are coarse but effective. On the orphreys are
shown, on one side, St. Peter and St. Katherine, on the other, St. Paul
and St. Barbara. The ground for the name of the last saint looks very
bright and fresh in its gold; but the gold is, so to say, a fraud. It is
put, by the common gilding process, upon the web after being woven,
and not twined about the thread itself. The fringe all round the lower
part is rather unusual.
