Needlework as art . ne-work, and thetwined columns on the orphreys; by the cherubim, bythe peacock-feathered angels, and by the form of thepanels enclosing the different subjects, from the Lifeof Our Lord. (Plate 59.) The cope of Boniface VIII. in the Vatican came fromthe church of his native place, Anagni (plate 60), whereare still very curious old embroideries (see Hon. andRev. T. Cliffords list of embroideries in Appendix 5).Some appear extremely ancient, but there is no sign bywhich they may be dated. Some are probably of thethirteenth century, and are very coarse Italian
Needlework as art . ne-work, and thetwined columns on the orphreys; by the cherubim, bythe peacock-feathered angels, and by the form of thepanels enclosing the different subjects, from the Lifeof Our Lord. (Plate 59.) The cope of Boniface VIII. in the Vatican came fromthe church of his native place, Anagni (plate 60), whereare still very curious old embroideries (see Hon. andRev. T. Cliffords list of embroideries in Appendix 5).Some appear extremely ancient, but there is no sign bywhich they may be dated. Some are probably of thethirteenth century, and are very coarse Italian designed (plate 61). There are doubtless many in-teresting specimens still to be found in the sacristies ofItalian churches. But they have generally been trans-ferred to museums. In the tomb of Walter de Cantilupe (eighteenth century)at Worcester, were found the remains of a dress which isdecidedly of an earlier date—evidently of Oriental material,but Anglo-Saxon work—so exactly resembling in style that PI. I. From Tomb in Worcester Cathedral, of Bishop Waller de Cantilupe, consecrated 123G2. Embroidered Cope at Aix in Switzerland. Page 320. PI. 63-
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