Medieval chasuble
The photograph shows the back of a chasuble, which is hanging on a stand. The ground fabric is a rich brocade design of large foliage, and the embroidered centre panel (orphrey) has coats of arms alternating with the heads of saints.
Creator
- Grandison, John
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Subject
- Photographs
- Religion
- Textiles
- archaeology
- Photograph
- Textile
- Religion
- Archaeology
Creator
- Grandison, John
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Subject
- Photographs
- Religion
- Textiles
- archaeology
- Photograph
- Textile
- Religion
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rights
- Grandison, John|Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Temporal
- 14th century
- Medieval
- 13XX
- 14th century
Places
- Devon
- England
- Europe
- Exeter
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- England
- Devon
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Instrumenta Ecclesiastica
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/instrumenta_ecclesiastica/ie48-2
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski, eds., Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400 (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), no. 598, p. 467. Number 598 in this catalogue is another orphrey also belonging to John Grandison, and probably from the same workshop which made the one in this photograph. It has a similar design and border pattern.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-18T10:19:41.175Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z