Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 251
, said to have been taken from a Turkish generalin the fifteenth century. This is Italian of the finestcinque-cento style: blue velvet, covered with beautiful 1 Museum at Berne.A piece of Venetian work to be seen at the South KensingtonMuseum is an altar frontal, worked in coral, gold beads, seed… … Materials. 147 gold embroidery, and every vacant space filled withspangles of endless forms, and of precious goldsmithsand enamellers work. The Persian stirrups attachedto it are of a totally different style of enamelling andjewellery, and speak for themselves, and for the schoolthey came from. Dr.…
Embroidery · Needlework
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