Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 44305

Christie No.: 236 -
Christie No.: 236 -

Record No

44305

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 236

Location

United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Burnley, Towneley Hall

Date

1430 - 1460, 1500 - 1538

Subject Headings

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Notes

Three orphreys of two different dates, attached to a later altar frontal.

Citations

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 50 no. 119

Tonkin, L., "Insights into the Production of Opus Anglicanum: An Object Analysis of Two Panels from the Pillar Orphreys on the Whalley Abbey Altar Frontal," Textile History, XLIII (2012 ), pp. 83-89; figs. 1-4.2

Lisa Monnas 'Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance Velvet: the Whalley Abbey Vestments' Textile History, 25 (I), (1994), 3-27

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