Work of Art Record 43622

Record No

43622

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 87

Location

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

Date

early 14c.

Subject Headings

Diagram

Notes

Steeple Aston Cope.

Reconstructed from altar frontal and dossal. Sometimes on loan to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Dimensions for frontal: h. 80cm, w. 218.4(h. 31.5 in., w. 86 in.); for dossal: h. 141cm, w. 157.5 (h. 55.5 in., w. 62 in.)

Citations

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 161-164 no. 87; pls. CXIV-CXIX; fig. 134

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), pp. 36-37

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Medieval Treasury (1986), p. 198; fig. p. 199

Parker, R., Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (1984), fig. 33

Synge, L., Art of embroidery: history of style and technique (2001), p. 48; fig. 43

Johnstone, P., High Fashion in the Church (2002); p. 43; fig. 41

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