Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 43962

Christie No.: 38 -
Christie No.: 38 -

Record No

43962

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 38

Location

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

Date

1220 - 1250

Subject Headings

King

Notes

This small roundel have been attached to a cope or other ecclesiastical garment. Panels applied to copes, occasionally described as circular, are mentioned in various inventories including one of 1245 from St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1864 from the collection of Canon Franz Bock.

Citations

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 70-71 no. 38; pl. XXIV

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 18 (no. 24)

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