Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 125
and nought remains of them but the solitaryfragment in the Cluny Museum. This measures.80 metre in width and .50 metre in height. Uponit is depicted the scene of the Israelites dancing ina plain round the golden calf, which surmounts asilver column. In the background to the left isMoses receiving… … composition reflects a masterly execution. It ismuch to be regretted that this embroidery of first- SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 113 class historical importance is in a bad state ofpreservation. A book published in Paris in 1775,entitled the Richesses Tirees du Tresor de VAbbaye deSaint…
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