Work of Art Record 43455

Record No

43455

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 165

Location

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

Date

1410 - 1440

Subject Headings

Trinity

Notes

Each angel is holding a heart pierced with many wounds.

The chasuble is of Chinese white silk damask, sixteenth or seventeenth century. The applied embroidery is of the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

In Hartpury House, near Gloucester. Mrs. Gordon-Canning, who gave the chasuble to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1922.

Photo: ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Citations

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 49 (cat. 115)

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