8627.
Piece of Silk Damask; ground, dark blue; pattern, lozenge-shaped compartments, filled in with quadrangular designs varying alternately. Spanish, late 14th century. 10-1/2 inches by 8 inches.
There is a Moorish influence in the design, which leads to the
supposition that this stuff was wrought somewhere in the South of
Spain.
8628, 8628A.
Two Fragments of Silk Damask; ground, light yellow; pattern, flowers and birds, with the letters A and M crowned, all in pale red. Italian, late 14th century. 6 inches by 5 inches; 6 inches by 3-1/2 inches.
A very pleasing design, in nicely toned colours, and evidently
wrought for hangings, or perhaps curtains, about the altar of the B. V.
Mary, as we have the whole sprinkled with the crowned letters A M,
significative of "Ave Maria."
8629.
Fragment of Silk Damask; ground, purple; pattern, four green hares in a park walled, with conventional flowers, yellow. Italian, late 14th century. 5 inches by 4-3/4 inches.
The colours, both of the ground and design, of this piece are much
faded, so that it becomes hard, at first sight, to make out the pattern,
especially the four green hares tripping within a park, which, instead
of being shown with pales, has a wall round it.
