8979.
Tissue of Crimson Silk and Gold Thread; pattern, the Blessed Virgin Mary in glory, amid cherubic heads, and having two angels, one on each side, standing on clouds. Venetian, 16th century. 1 foot 4 inches by 1 foot.
The subject, a favourite one of the time, is the Assumption of the
B. V. Mary, and the tissue was woven entirely for the adornment of
liturgical furniture.
9047.
Cushion, elaborately wrought by the needle on fine canvas, and figured with animals, armorial bearings, flowers, and love-knots, as well as with the letters I and R royally crowned. Scotch, 17th century. 11 inches by 8 inches.
We have on the first large pane a rose tree, bearing one red rose
seeded or, barbed vert, and at its foot, but separating them, two unicorns
argent, outlined and horned in silver thread; above them, and separated
by the red rose, two lions passant, face to face, langued and outlined in
gold thread; above the flower a royal crown or, and two small knots
or, and at each side a white rose slipped; over each unicorn a gold knot,
and a strawberry proper. Beneath this larger shield are three small
ones: the first, fretty or, and vert (but so managed that the field takes the
shape of strawberry leaves), charged with four true-love-knots or, and in
chief vert, a strawberry branch or wire or, bearing one fruit proper,
and one flower argent; the second shield gives us, on a field azure, and
within an orle of circles linked together on four sides by golden bands,
and charged with strawberry fruit, and leaf, and flower proper, and
alternating, a plume of Prince of Wales's feathers argent, with the
quill of the middle feather marked red or gules, at each of the four
corners there is a true-love-knot in gold; the third small shield is a
series of circles outlined in gold, and filled in with quatrefoils outlined
green; below, on a large green pane, a white rose slipped, with grapes
and acorns; by its side, the capital letters, in gold, I and R, with a
strawberry and leaf close by each letter, and above all, and between two
