Medieval Costume in England and France by Mary G. Houston

Author:Mary G. Houston
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780486141572
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 209. Richard II. when a youth of fifteen. He wears a scarlet houppelande which is entirely covered with a golden embroidered pattern consisting of his badge (a white hart) enclosed in ornamental circles, for further description of which see Chapter XI., pp. 133–135. He also wears a jewelled collar of links in the shape of broom-pods while a morse or brooch is fastened into the front of his garment and takes the form of a white hart in gold and enamel or perhaps in mother-of-pearl, and with golden jewelled antlers. The neck and sleeves of the houppelande are trimmed with a gold braid and on the sleeves the braid is fringed. The National Gallery of London, where the Diptych now is, have published a fine coloured reproduction of this picture, giving an adequate idea of the splendour and elaborate decoration of the garments shown here in outline.

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