The back of a chasuble of crimson velvet, with fine orphrey embroidered with the Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary and St. John, against a gold ground - the orphrey Cologne, last quarter of the 15th century (worn)

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The back of a chasuble of crimson velvet, with fine orphrey embroidered with the Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary and St. John, against a gold ground - the orphrey Cologne, last quarter of the 15th century (worn)
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Lot Essay

There is an orphrey of this type in the Wurttembergischen Landesmuseums, Stuttgart, Inv.No. 7744, illustrated plate 7, Ruth Gronwoldt, Stickereien von der Vorzeit bis zur Gegenwart, Munich, 1993. There are also two orphreys of this type in the Diozesanmuseum, Paderborn, Inv. No.T 46 and T.324, Illustrated plates 67 and 68, Kirchliche Kunst um 1600 in Westfalen, Exhibition Catalogue, Paderborn, 1991

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