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 7024.

Embroidery, in coloured silks upon fine linen damask. Flemish, 16th century. 10 inches by 2-1/2 inches.

The fine linen upon which the embroidery is done, is diapered with a lozenge pattern: on one side of a large flower-bearing tree are the words:—"Jhesu Xpi," and the other, "O crux Ave," on each side of the tree is a shield unemblazoned but surrounded by a garland of flowers. Most likely this piece served to cover the top of the devotional table in a lady's bed-room.

7025.

Embroidery, in coloured silks upon white linen; pattern, symbols of the Passion, flowers, and birds, with saints' names. German, 17th century. 20-1/2 inches by 6 inches.

Within a green circle, overshadowed on four sides by stems bearing flowers, stands a low column with ropes about it and a scourge at one side, and divided by it is the word Martinus, in red silk; amid the flower-bearing wide-spread branches of a tree are the names Ursula, Augustinus; within another circle like the first we see the cross with the sponge at the end of a reed, and the lance, having the name of Barbara in blue and crimson; and, last of all, another tree with the names Laurentius—Katerina. It is edged with a border of roses and daisies, and has a parti-coloured silk fringe. No doubt this piece served as the ornament of a lady's praying-desk in her private room, and bore the names of those for whom she wished more especially to pray.

7026.

Orphrey of Web; ground, gold; pattern, two stems intertwined and bearing leaves and flowers, in crimson silk. German, 15th century. 9 inches by 2-1/2 inches.