Work of Art Record 43821

Record No

43821

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 33

Location

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

Date

1220 - 1250

Subject Headings

King

Notes

Possibly Jesse: Tree (?). Fragments in British Museum Museum, London, and in Worcester Cathedral possibly from same pair of buskins. Found in Worcester Cathedral in 1861 in coffin of Walter de Cantelupe, Bishop of Worcester (1236-1266).

Citations

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 68-69 (no. 33); pl. XX (B)

Brieger, P., English Art 1216-1307 (1957), p. 210

Johnstone, P., High Fashion in the Church (2002), pp. 36-37; fig. 30

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