1376 / 1400, Italy
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1376 / 1400, Italy
- Identifier
- 43.131
- Transfer of custody
- MFA Boston
- Acquisition
- By 1900, Leopold Iklé (b. 1838 - d. 1922), St. Gallen, Switzerland; 1922, to his son, Fritz Iklé (b. 1877 - d. 1946), St. Gallen; sold from the Iklé collection to Adolph Loewi (d. 1977), Venice and Los Angeles; 1943, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $3000. (Accession Date: May 13, 1943) / Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
- Collection
- Technique
- Embroidery 98%
- Embroidery 97%
- Embroidery 100%
- Embroidery 88%
- Embroidery 75%
- Embroidery 98%
- Depiction
- Floral motif 72%
- Floral motif 62%
- Floral motif 59%
- Floral motif 54%
- Floral motif 72%
- Dimension
- 42 cm (height)28.6 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
- Type of object
Description
Deep cream colored linen ground. Central figure of Christ on the Cross flanked at left by the Virgin Mary and two attendant women and a group of soldiers on horseback, at the right by St. John the Evangelist and a group of soldiers, some on horseback. Background of foliate scrolls, worked with polychrome silks and metallic threads in slip, stem, knot and couching stitches. Most of metallic thread now disappeared, much of silk thread now disappeared.
