Florentine Border depicting the Virgin Adoring the Child with Angels

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Description

Textile fragment known as a "Florentine border", from an orphrey panel, depicting the Virgin adoring the Child flanked by two angels with a red satin ground and silk lampas using supplementary gilt metallic yarns. Above are the words from the Gospel according to St. John:1, "[VE]RBVM HARO FATVM EST" (The Word is made flesh)

Dimensions

28.6 × 27.3 cm (11 1/4 × 10 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Harry G. Friedman, New York, Gift to Fogg Museum, 1960.