Description
An Early 18th Century Embroidered Silk Chalice-veil worked in coloured silks and metallic silver thread on an ivory ground with a cruciform design to the centre surrounded by trailing flowers; carnations, anemones, rosebuds and columbine, in a silver thread guilloche border with braid trim, 10 in (25.5 cm) square. Set in a glazed modern frame 15 in (38 cm) square.