Orphrey Band: The Tree of Jesse
c. 1350
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Orphrey Band: The Tree of Jesse, c. 1350. England, 14th century. Silk, gold and silver thread, linen; embroidery: split and couching stitches; overall: 85.7 x 18.1 cm (33 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.); mounted: 109.2 x 28.6 cm (43 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1949.503
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Silk, gold and silver thread, linen; embroidery: split and couching stitches
- Dimensions
- Overall: 85.7 x 18.1 cm (33 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.); Mounted: 109.2 x 28.6 cm (43 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: three figures framed by a scrolling vine dressed in medieval costumes hold scrolls on which their names are written in Latin; they read from top to bottom: Achim, Ezechias-Rex, and Eloud.
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1949.503
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Gothic Art 1360-1440, English Medieval Embroidery, When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story, Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Aspects of the Middle Ages. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (February 17-March 24, 1940)<br>Aspects of Late Medieval Art. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 20, 1958).<br>Opus Anglicanum. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (September 26-November 26, 1963).<br>Raiment for the Lord's Service, A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 11, 1975-January 18, 1976).<br>Gallery 216 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1991).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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