. Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [electronic resource]. rast to, and yet in complete harmony with this under-lay of magnificence, are the frequent flower forms with whichthe whole is sprinkled. These are of silk, involving hues ofrose, white, blue, yellow and green, very pure in tone andblended with an exquisite refinement. The frontal is surrounded on the two sides and top by anarrow border composed of tulips, carnations and roses,
. Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [electronic resource]. rast to, and yet in complete harmony with this under-lay of magnificence, are the frequent flower forms with whichthe whole is sprinkled. These are of silk, involving hues ofrose, white, blue, yellow and green, very pure in tone andblended with an exquisite refinement. The frontal is surrounded on the two sides and top by anarrow border composed of tulips, carnations and roses, andacross the top of the space thus enclosed a broad panel its center is the ecclesiastical convention of the lotus, adaptedin its form to the Greek decorative device of the palmette oranthemium, while below the panel is suspended like a fringea succession of bell-shaped blossoms. The flowers that pre-dominate on the main field of the decoration are yellow and roseand rose and white tulips, pink and white carnations and a blueiris. They are wrought with a skill that emulates the beauty ofthe real flowers, yet with an artistic instinct that preserves theconventional suggestion of the whole 117—Italian Embroidered Altar Frontal Seventeenth Century. Upon a foundation of rose-coloredGenoese velvet is a very bold design of scrollwork, leaves andflowers, surmounted by a broad border with two main stems of the arabesque are embroidered in green silk,while the foliage and flowers are wrought in silver and goldthread, enriched in parts with bullion. A little blue appears inthe flowers. It is noticeable that the ornament of the lowerportion of the frontal is not centered. The medallions, enclosedin a rim of silver bullion, contain pictures executed in petitpoint and needle painting. The subject of each is St. John;commemorative in the one case of his Gospel and in the otherof his Revelation. In the left design he is represented seated,gazing up at
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