Embroidered panel
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Satin, Silk, Gold thread, Metal wire, Wood, Glass
Measurements
514 mm (H)467 mm (W)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338348
Summary
Embroidered panel - Silk embroidery with gold thread on white satin backed with green silk, depicting symbols of four apostles and with small framed oval spaces. Metal work on white satin. Motifs of an ox, leopard, angel holding a shield and an eagle, and empty ovals. Possibly professionally embroidered for framing pictures. Modern, moulded wood frame, glazed. Embroidered emblems of four gospels – could be a bible cover - Rosamund Weatherall 2010. In notebook no.4, page 18 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Anns Room 17. Panel of 18th Cent. Embroidery. Italian on ivory silk, chiefly in gold thread, numerous panels showing the emblems of the Evangelists in coloured silks, a coat of arms repeated at each corner, under a coronet.' Includes a sketch of the arms.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 17