Artist German
Title
  • Orphrey
Date 15th Century
Medium Samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): silk, bast, and metallic thread.
Dimensions 37 x 2 3/4 in.
94.0 x 7.0 cm
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
Accession Number 70.906
Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Not On View
Inscriptions IHESUS and MARIA are repeating inscriptions.
Loewi-Robertson Inc. (dealer), Los Angeles.
P. Barnet, Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Insitute of Arts, exh. cat. 1991, no. 5, p 19.