7813A.
Part of an Orphrey, embroidered with figures of the Apostles. Italian, late 15th century. 4 feet by 7-1/2 inches.
Of the five personages, only the second, St. Paul, can be identified by
his symbol of a sword. All are wrought upon a golden diaper, and
standing within niches; but though the features are strongly marked in
brown silk lines, as a specimen it is not remarkably good; and, most
likely, served as the orphrey to some vestment, a chasuble, the orphrey
of which for the front was the piece numbered 7813.
7833.
Piece of Applied Embroidery, upon silk of a creamy white, an ornamentation in crimson velvet and cloth of gold, scolloped and tasseled. Italian, early 17th century.
Rich of its kind, and probably a part of household furniture.
7900.
Silk Damask; ground, blue; pattern, diaper of stalks, bearing a broad foliation in whitish blue, and lions, and birds like hoopoes, all in gold, between horizontal bands inscribed with imitated Saracenic letters. Sicilian, 14th century, 10-3/4 inches square.
A beautiful design; and in the bands, at each end of the imitated
word in Saracenic characters, are those knots that are found on Italian
textiles. So poor was the gold on the thread, that it is sadly tarnished.
8128.
Apparels to an Alb; figured with the birth of the B. V. Mary, in the upper one; and in the lower, the birth of our Lord; with two armorial shields alternating between the spandrils of the canopies. English needlework, on
