Work of Art Record 43419

Record No

43419

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 72

Location

United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Victoria and Albert Museum

Date

1315 - 1335

Subject Headings

Diagram

Notes

Marnhull Orphrey.

Architectural frames with escutcheons (Wokyndon) in spandrels; borders of fantastic animals.

Citations

Christie, A., "Unknown English Medieval Orphrey," Burlington Magazine, LXIX (1936), pp. 182, 187; figs. A-C opp. p. 182

Victoria and Albert Museum, Review of the Principal Acquisitions (1936), pp. 40-41; pl. 25

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp, 138-140 (no. 72); pls. XCI, XCII; fig. 123

Brieger, P., English Art 1216-1307 (1957), p. 212

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), cat. 58; p. 33; color pl. facing p. 16

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Age of Chivalry (1987), cat. 578; p. 457; color figure

Woolley, L., "Two Panels from an Orphrey Showing Scenes from the Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury," Textile History, 20 (1989), p. 267; fig. 3

Synge, L., Art of embroidery: history of style and technique (2001), fig. 48

Johnstone, P., High Fashion in the Church (2002), p. 42; fig. 39

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