Christopher Shawe
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Christopher Shawe or Shaw was an English embroiderer and textile artist who worked on masque costume for Anne of Denmark. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers.
Christopher Shawe realised the costume designs of Inigo Jones
The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses was an early Jacobean-era masque, written by Samuel Daniel and performed in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace on the evening of Sunday, 8 January 1604. One of t
Christopher Shawe
…Streatham, at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, the church used by the College of Arms. Shawe worked on masque costume in December 1603 for the female dancers in The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, and presumably other masques of the season. Some of the costume was recycled from the wardrobe of Elizabeth I. He also worked on other "parcels…
The ceiling of the Great Hall where the masque was performed