8646.
Fragment of a Piece of Silk and Gold Embroidery on Linen; ground, as it now looks, yellow; pattern, interlacing strapwork, forming spaces charged with the armorial bearings of England, and other blazons, rudely worked. 14th century. 5 inches by 3½ inches.
So faded are the silks, and so tarnished the gold thread used for the embroidery of this piece, that, at first sight, the tinctures of the blazon are not discernible. In the centre we have the three golden libards or lions of England, and the silk of the ground or field, on narrow examination, we find to have been scarlet or gules; immediately below is a shield quarterly, 1 and 4 or, a lion rampant gules, 2 and 3 sable, a lion rampant or; immediately above, a shield gules, with three pales azure (?), each charged with what are seemingly tall crosses (St. Anthony’s) or; above, the shield of England; but to the right hand, on a field barry of twelve azure and or, a lion rampant gules; below this shield, another, on a field or, two bars sable; these two shields alternate on the other side. The strapwork all about is fretty or, on a field gules.