Work of Art Record 42917

Record No

42917

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 180

Location

France, Île-de-France, Paris, Musée de Cluny

Date

second quarter 14c.

Subject Headings

Heraldry, English: England

Notes

Second of three fragments of horse trapper, decorated with heraldry of England. Detail of lions.

Citations

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 38 cat. 76; pl. 18

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Age of Chivalry (1987), pp. 160, 202 cat. 12; fig. 12 p. 202

Staniland, K., Embroiderers (1991), p. 29; figs. 25-26

Paris, Musée de Cluny, Musée national du Moyen Age (1993), p. 167

Synge, L., Art of embroidery: history of style and technique (2001), fig. 35

Paris, Musée de Cluny, Musée national du Moyen Age: The Cluny Thermae (2003), p. 92; fig.

Encyclopedia of Dress and Textiles in the British Isles c. 450-1450 (2012), p. 277

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