Textile Antiques has dated this piece to a period before the 16th Century.
A seraph standing on a wheel between water flowers and fleurs de lis, the motifs embroidered in coloured silk and silver gilt threads in laid and couched work, split stitch and brick stitch on linen, applied to a ground of blue silk velvet with further decoration in couched silk cord.
The V & A has a fragment of a cope with comparable embroidery on a blue velvet ground (accession number 617-1898), while the angel here is particularly close to those on a complete cope in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment, 1971.312a).
Textile Antiques has dated this piece to a period before the 16th Century.
Fine european textiles and tapestries of the period spanning the 15th century to the early 20th century.
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