Chasuble

French

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

circa 1500-1550, circa 1975

A pre-Reformation embroidery featuring two figures and embroidered orphreys, angels and floral motifs. It was mounted on a 20th century silk damask in the early 1970s.

• Medium: wool & gilt thread on a silk ground
• Dimensions: 137 x 76cm
• Art Fund Grant: £500 ( Total: £1,322)
• ArtFunded in: 2003
• Vendor: Parish of Central Exeter

Provenance

A nunnery in France before 1900; Rev W H Oxley; bequeathed to St. Olave's church, Exeter, 1924.

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