Pair of Orphreys
1340-1370 (made)
| Place of origin |
Parts of an ophrey, now attached to T.14&14A-1937. Embroidered with silver-gilt and silver thread and coloured silks in underside couching and split stitch, with raised work, on silk velvet with an interlayer of silk in plain weave.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Pieces of an ophrey, embroidered. |
| Physical description | Parts of an ophrey, now attached to T.14&14A-1937. Embroidered with silver-gilt and silver thread and coloured silks in underside couching and split stitch, with raised work, on silk velvet with an interlayer of silk in plain weave. |
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| Object history | T.14 & 14a-1937 were acquired by the museum in 1937 and, clearly belonging to the ophrey 178&A-1889, were subsequently attached. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Clifford, Walter, ‘A Descriptive Catalogue of Some Remarkable Copes’, Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club 1 (1887–8), 229–40, cat. no. 8
Catalogue of English Ecclesiastical Embroideries of the XIIIth to XVIth Centuries, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, museum catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 4th edn. (London, 1930), cat. no. 16
Christie, Grace, English Medieval Embroidery: A Brief Survey of English Embroidery dating from the Beginning of the Tenth Century until the End of the Fourteenth (Oxford, 1938), cat. No. 99
King, Donald, Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1963), cat. no. 90
Browne, Clare; Davies, Glyn; Michael, M.A., English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum , exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2016) , pp. 238-40, Cat. No. 62. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 176-1889 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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