About the Artwork
Orphrey
15th century
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German
German
Samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): silk, bast, and metallic thread.
37 x 2 3/4 in. 94.0 x 7.0 cm
Costume Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
70.906
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
IHESUS and MARIA are repeating inscriptions.
Provenance
Loewi-Robertson Inc. (dealer), Los Angeles.
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P. Barnet, Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Insitute of Arts, exh. cat. 1991, no. 5, p 19.
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German, Orphrey, 15th century, Samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): silk, bast, and metallic thread.. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 70.906.
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