Cover with orphrey panels
16th century
Artists
Description
Mounted on cut silk burgundy velvet with knotted cotton fringe at short ends; woven metallic braid divides field into five sections; left panel depicts St. John the Baptist carrying a book and pointing at Agnus Dei under an archway topped by a scallop shell; right panel depicts the Virgin holding the infant Jesus with an orb in his left hand and blessing with his right, in a similar archway; figures and embroidery in silk split stitch on plain woven linen ground; backed with cotton satin.
Dimensions
50.17 x 96.52 cm (19 3/4 x 38 in.)
Provenance
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1930.
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