Work of Art Record 43895

Record No

43895

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 100

Location

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

Date

1345 - 1355

Subject Headings

Saint, Female

Notes

Detail, Apostle Bartholomew and Catherine of Alexandria.

Orphrey in two fragments; formerly on a cope.

Formerly in collection Benoît Hochon of Paris.

Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1903.

Citations

De Farcy, L., Broderie, Suppl. II (1919), p. 197; pl. 197 (1,2,4)

London, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of English Ecclesiastical Embroideries of the XIII. to XVI. Centuries (1930), pp. 24, 25; pl. XIII

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 192-193 no. 100; pl. CLIII

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