A cope of ivory satin woven with a grid of roundels enclosing pairs of doves in gilt coloured threads, the hood and orphrey tamboured in coloured silks with stylised flowers and applied with pommegranates in silver metal threads, the hood appliqué with a roundel embroidered with a portrait of a bishop, 20th century, Continental

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A cope of ivory satin woven with a grid of roundels enclosing pairs of doves in gilt coloured threads, the hood and orphrey tamboured in coloured silks with stylised flowers and applied with pommegranates in silver metal threads, the hood appliqué with a roundel embroidered with a portrait of a bishop, 20th century, Continental

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