About the Artwork
Orphrey
15th century
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Flemish
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Silk and metallic thread on linen plain weave, embroidery
Overall: 10 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (25.7 × 22.2 cm)
Costume Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund and William Yawkey Fund
60.45
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, above appropriate saint: S. AUGUST, S. MONICA [difficult to decipher].
Provenance
(Jacob Hirsch, New York, New York, USA);(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, California, USA);
1960-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1991, no. 13, p. 25.
Weibel, A. C. "A Flemish Embroidery," Bulletin of the DIA 40, no. 1 (1960-61): pp. 14-15.
Magic of Fibers. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Museum. 1970.
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Flemish, Orphrey, 15th century, silk and metallic thread on linen plain weave, embroidery. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund and William Yawkey Fund, 60.45.
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