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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Chasuble
Chasuble Chasuble

© Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery


Chasuble

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
2003
Dimensions
137 x 76 cm
Vendor
Parish of Central Exeter
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.

Provenance

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

Wool & gilt thread on a silk ground

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