Work of Art Record 42402

Record No

42402

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 52

Location

United States, New York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date

late 13c.

Subject Headings

Diagram

Notes

Accession No. 17.190.186

Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (until 1917).

Each apostle within architectural frame, six escutcheons (Hastings, Earl of Arundel, England, Castille-Léon, Clare, and De Vere) in arch spandrels (6-11); crescent moon and stars in background.

Citations

Morris, F., "English Ecclesiastical Embroidery in the Morgan Collection," Art in America, IV (1915-1916), pp. 195-200; fig. 1

De Farcy, L., Broderie, Suppl. II (1919), p. 153; pl. 196 (2)

Little, F., "Exhibition of English Embroidery," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXIV (1929), p. 262; figure

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 96-97 (no. 52); pl. L (A); fig. 90

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Arts of the Middle Ages (1940), cat. 98; p. 34; pl. XLVII (98)

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), cat. 33; pp. 20-21

Husband, T., "Ecclesiastical Vestments of the Middle Ages," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., XXIX (1970-1971), p. 286; fig. 2

Young, B., "Opus Anglicanum," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., XXIX (1970-1971), p. 296; fig. 16

Ottawa, National Gallery, Art and Courts (1972), I, p. 164 (85); II, pl. III

Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Transformations of the Court Style (1977), cat. 34; pp. 94-95; fig. p. 94

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