Work of Art Record 43824

Record No

43824

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 155

Location

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

Date

1460 - 1490

Subject Headings

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Notes

View of back orphrey.

See related work in Riggisberg, Abegg-Stiftung Museum.

Panels decorated with Spanish heraldry were added to orphreys embroidered in England.

Citations

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 53 cat. 130

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Embroidery in Britain, 1200-1750 (1993), p. 23 cat. 20; pl. 20 (Longinus the Soldier)

Riggisberg, Abegg Collection, Mittelalterliche Textilien III: Stickerei bis um 1500 und figürlich gewebte Borten (2012), pp. 169-177 cat. 31; figs. pp. 170-173, 176

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