Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . y covers the outside of a casket, orcoffer, fourteen and three-quarter inches long by sixand a quarter high, and is evidently of French workunder Italian influence. The various subjects, each of which is em-blematical of amonth, are twelvein number. Fouroccur on the lid,namely, those applic-able to September,October, November,and December. Thetwo long panels,one at each end ofthe coffer, representApril, in the epi-sode of a noble Fig. Sl.—Ec
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . y covers the outside of a casket, orcoffer, fourteen and three-quarter inches long by sixand a quarter high, and is evidently of French workunder Italian influence. The various subjects, each of which is em-blematical of amonth, are twelvein number. Fouroccur on the lid,namely, those applic-able to September,October, November,and December. Thetwo long panels,one at each end ofthe coffer, representApril, in the epi-sode of a noble Fig. Sl.—Ecce Homo (an embroidered pic- receiving a flowerture in the Museum of Art and Industry from a drapedat Lyons). maiden, and August in the harvest scene of a reaper cutting a rich fieldof golden wheat; the back and front sides of the cofferare each split up into three panels, for the monthsof January, February, March, and May, June, French inscriptions of these latter months—Mai,Jun> Juki—are legible; the other months are identifi-able by the zodiacal signs, one in each panel. Theembroidery, which is padded, to give relief effects in. SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 119 various parts, such as the architectural ornaments,is worked with gold threads, whipped round with finecoloured silks; certain forms are defined by goldcords stitched down to outline them; the faces of thefigures, and some of the charming glimpses of land-scape, are wrought in long and short stitches withcoloured silks.* Spanish embroiderers were almost equally skilful inthis class of work, and did not fail to adopt manyrefinements of the art from the Italians. Althoughthe execution of the Spanish work was less compactthan that of the Italian, certain samples of it are hardlyof inferior artistic quality; this is specially the casewith embroideries which owe both charm and style tohaving been made from paintings by Murillo, themaster above others of the Spanish school. Of such,the Spitzer
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