TWO MEDIEVAL OPUS ANGLICANUM EMBROIDERED ECCLESIASTICAL VERTICAL FRAGMENTS, ENGLISH, LATE 14TH CENTURY

TWO MEDIEVAL OPUS ANGLICANUM EMBROIDERED ECCLESIASTICAL VERTICAL FRAGMENTS, ENGLISH, LATE 14TH CENTURY

probably originally part of a vestment orphrey band, one worked with figure of St Anne with Mary as a child, and the other possibly of St Etheldreda (Ethelthrith), Abbess of Ely, with her crosier, both worked with silks in split stitch with a diapered gold ground, within foliate niches, mounted next to each other in a glazed frame

Glazed Frame: 48 by 48cm; 2ft. 1in., 2ft. 10in.