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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.366
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Cover with orphrey panels
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231209

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silk cut velvet
Technique
Embroidery
Dimensions
50.17 x 96.52 cm (19 3/4 x 38 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1930.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.366
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Mounted on cut silk burgundy velvet with knotted cotton fringe at short ends; woven metallic braid divides field into five sections; left panel depicts St. John the Baptist carrying a book and pointing at Agnus Dei under an archway topped by a scallop shell; right panel depicts the Virgin holding the infant Jesus with an orb in his left hand and blessing with his right, in a similar archway; figures and embroidery in silk split stitch on plain woven linen ground; backed with cotton satin.

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