FOUR ECCLESIASTICAL NEEDLEWORK APPLIQUES

FOUR ECCLESIASTICAL NEEDLEWORK APPLIQUES

POSSIBLY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

with two further border fragments, worked with petit point and braid, with silk, seedpearls, spangles and silver and gilt metal thread, on a vellum and linen silk ground, depicting the four Evangelists, with leaf and grapevine borders, probably these would have decorated a priest's chasuble, mounted as one, in a later glazed and gilt and wood frame

52 x 54.5cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.136-137 for a discussion of these appliques.