Lord Chancellor's Burse for the Great Seal of Elizabeth I
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 43 x 48 cm
- Vendor
- Private vendor
A burse panel of crimson velvet worked in purl wire, gold and silver-wrapped threads with the Elizabethan Royal cypher in raised work.
Provenance
Made around 1596 for Sir Thomas Egerton; given to Henry Jones, one of Egerton's servants; bought at auction in 1880s (?)