Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 43961

Christie No.: 123 -
Christie No.: 123 -

Record No

43961

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 123

Location

United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow, Burrell Collection

Date

c. 1415 - 1430

Subject Headings

Virgin Mary, Infancy, Seven Steps

Notes

Remounted on imported dalmatic of Italian origin, c. 1500. Other fragments in Towneley Hall, Burnley. Bought at Christie's June 1939 from Maurice Herbert Towneley.

Citations

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 46 (no. 102)

Glasgow, Burrell Collection (1983), p. 99; color fig. p. 99

Glasgow, Burrell Collection, Rarer Gifts than Gold: Fourteenth-Century Art in Scottish Collections (1988), pp. 48-49, 52 (no. 37)

Monnas, L. ‘Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance Velvet: The Whalley Abbey Vestments’, Textile History, xxv (1994), pp. 3–27

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003), p. 411

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