Work of Art Record 44401

Record No

44401

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 269

Location

United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Saddlers' Hall

Date

c. 1508

Subject Headings

Virgin Mary, Assumption

Notes

Mutilated during the Reformation (late 16c.) when the figures of the Virgin were concealed by Sacred Monograms.

Sections on either side contain the Company's arms: azure a chevron between three saddled furnished, or and the inscription reads: IN TE D(OMI)NE SPERAVIS NO(N) CO(N)FUNDER IN ETERNUM. (End of Te Deum).

Reproduced with the kind permission of the Worshipful Company of Saddlers

Citations

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), p. 58

Kingsley, O., Treasures and Plate, The Collection of the Saddlers’ Company (1995).

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