Embroidered altar-frontal
Artist: Artist not known
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date: 1300 - 1400
Materials: silk & gold thread
Dimensions: 113 x 52 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,000 (Total: £8,000)
Vendor: Bernheimer, Munich
Review number: 2169 (1964)
Provenance:
Sold in 1930 from the 12th century cathedral of Krk, formerly Veglia, near the Italian-Yugoslav frontier, the iconography suggests it was for the high altar there.
Description:
Venetian altar-frontal embroidered with the Coronation of the Virgin with 12 angels in centre and the saints to either side. On the reverse; S.S.Querinus, Peter, John the Evangelist, John the Baptist, Paul, and Gaudentius.
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