England

Burse Panel

18th century

Silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with silk broken twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, linen plain weave, and with wool plain weave; fulled; embroidered in high relief with silk, gilt-and silvered-metal strips, wires and coils, gilt-and silvered-metal strip wrapped silk and metal-wire wrapped gilt-and silvered-metal strip wrapped silk in laidwork, couching and linen and wool padded couching

50.5 × 50.8 cm (19.9 × 20 in)