Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
TWO MEDIEVAL OPUS ANGLICANUM EMBROIDERED ECCLESIASTICAL VERTICAL FRAGMENTS, ENGLISH, LATE 14TH CENTURY
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December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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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.
‘Spetchley Park -I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 45, illustrated in the Drawing Room
Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1905
V&A Mediaeval Art, 1930, No. 455
Royal Academy, British Art, 1934, No. 4
Commemorative Exhibition of the Art Treasures of the Midlands, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1934, p.105, No. 420; lent by R.G.W.Berkeley, Esq.