43673
Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery
Christie No.: 135
United States, New York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
13c.
John the Evangelist
Photo: ©Metropolitan Museum of Art In fragment of orphrey, figure may be Evangelist John or saint. Wetter, in the catalogue cited above, suggests that the piece is Italian (Tuscany) rather than English.
Riggisberg, Abegg Collection, Mittelalterliche Textilien III: Stickerei bis um 1500 und figürlich gewebte Borten (2012), p. 89 in cat. 9
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