Shabrack

Register states: 'Lent for two or three years to National Army Museum, Sandhurst, 13-08-1963.' Returned in October 1989
During the exile of the Duke of York (later James II) Churchill attended him in The Hague and in Brussels. In 1682 the Duke of York returned to London and Churchill was made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the peerage of Scotland and colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons.On James's succession in 1685 Churchill was appointed governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Gentleman of the Bedchamber as well as being admitted to the English peerage as Baron Churchill of Sandridge in the county of Hertfordshire. Marlborough’s army defeated the Duke of Monmouth in the summer of 1685, which cemented the royal authority of James. However, Marlborough opposed the king’s pro-Catholic views and his attempts to catholicise England.In the 1688 Revolution he joined William of Orange’s forces.
This is very similar to an object in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (L 0026.02), described here: http://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/de/contents/show?id=494027#longDescription. The shabrack was a present from Louis XIV of France to August the Strong, sent in 1715 to Dresden. The embroidery is very, very similar and according to the Dresden caption is influenced by Daniel Marot's designs.