Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 44498

Christie No.: 24
Christie No.: 24

Record No

44498

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 24

Location

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

Date

1160–1220

Subject Headings

Saint, Male

Notes

On loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum from the Diocese of Westminster.

The figures on the infulae may be compared with those on the stole from the tomb of William de Blois at Worcester.

Citations

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of English Embroidery (1905), p. 58; pl. XXII

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 62-63 no. 24; pl. XVI

Blocher, H., Die Mitren des hohen Mittelalters (2012), pp. 261-256; fig. 174 (color)

V&A, “Mitre,” accessed 5 December 2022, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O118354/mitre-unknown/.

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