1930.366: Cover with orphrey panels
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.366
- People
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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
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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
- Permissions
-
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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.
Verification Level
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