THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEWOMAN
A young girl's bodice of fine linen,the front embroidered with gilt scrolling branches, terminating in leafy tips, the ground seme with spangles (some missing), laced at the back, circa 1610
Details
A young girl's bodice of fine linen,the front embroidered with gilt scrolling branches, terminating in leafy tips, the ground seme with spangles (some missing), laced at the back, circa 1610
See Colour Illustration on Cover
See Colour Illustration on Cover
Provenance
Worn by an ancestress of the vendor. Family tradition suggests that it was Eleanor Cave who married Sir George Beeston of Beeston Castle, Cheshire in 1609. She was widowed in 1611. She then married Sir Thomas Roe at St. Margaret's, Westminster on the 15th December 1614. She died in 1675. Sir Thomas Roe is best known as Ambassador the Jehangir, the Mogul in 1615-18 and to the Sublime Porte [Constantinople] 1621- 28. Lady Roe accompanied her husband to Constantinople.
Exhibited
Royal School of Needlework Loan Exhibition at St. James's Palace April 12 - May 15 1951 cat.no. 32