Work of Art Record 43619

Record No

43619

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 83

Location

Unidentified, Private Collection

Date

c. 13c.

Subject Headings

Christ, Crucifixion

Notes

One of two almost identically sized cusped quatrefoil panels of a burse. Called "The Berkeley Purse." Related to a burse panel in the Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. T.62-1936.

Provenance: Robert Valentine Berkeley (1853-1940), The Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park, by 1905, and by descent until 2019. Exhibited with the Sam Fogg Collection in "The Medieval Body" exhibition (New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery, 21 Jan- 12 Mar 2022. See catalogue no. 11).

Citations

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of English Embroidery Executed Prior to the Middle of the XVI Century (1905), No. 2, p. 61, pl. xvi (in colour)

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), p. 155 no. 83; pl. CVII B.

Michael A. Michael ed., The Age of Opus Anglicanum (London and Turnhout, 2016), pp. 97 and 111.

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