Needlework as art . Iall of the Vintners Company (sixteenth century). Pagt 373-. > English Embroidery. 379 specimen of the later fourteenth century work than thefamous pall of the FishmongersCompany, which shows tin-impress of the Flemish taste, which was at its perfectionin the fifteenth. The style reminds us of that of the finetapestries from the St. Marys Hall, Coventry, of whichthe subject is King Henry VI. and Cardinal Beaufortpraying. The Vintners Companys pall is also very fine(plate 79). Of the time of Henry VII. we have the celebratedcope of Stoneyhurst, woven in Florence, of a gol
Needlework as art . Iall of the Vintners Company (sixteenth century). Pagt 373-. > English Embroidery. 379 specimen of the later fourteenth century work than thefamous pall of the FishmongersCompany, which shows tin-impress of the Flemish taste, which was at its perfectionin the fifteenth. The style reminds us of that of the finetapestries from the St. Marys Hall, Coventry, of whichthe subject is King Henry VI. and Cardinal Beaufortpraying. The Vintners Companys pall is also very fine(plate 79). Of the time of Henry VII. we have the celebratedcope of Stoneyhurst, woven in Florence, of a gold tissue,the design raised in crimson velvet. It is without seam,and the composition which covers the whole surfaceis the crown of England lying on the portcullis; andthe Tudor rose fills up the space with a magnificentscroll. The design is evidently English, as well asthe embroidery, which is, however, much restored(plate 80). This is one of the whole suite of vestmentsand copes of cloth of gold tissue wrought with ourbadges of red roses and portcullises, the which we oflate
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