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Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery
Christie No.: 270
United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Merchant Taylors' Hall
1512 - 1538
Heraldry, English: Company of Merchant Taylors
End of pall.
Customarily used to cover the coffin of a brother of the Mysterie at his burial.
Recorded in the Company's Inventories of 1609 and 1618.
Possibly commissioned by the company, containing its arms granted in 1480. S. John Baptist is the patron saint of the company.
Image courtesy of: The Master of The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors
Clode, C. M., Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors (1875), pp. 132-137
Fry, F. M., Historical Catalogue of the Pictures at Merchant Taylors' Hall (1907), pp. 23-24
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), pp. 58-59 (no. 153)
Davies, M. & Saunders, A., History of the Merchant Taylors’ Company (2004), pp. 30-31; color plate II B