The back of a chasuble of crimson velvet cut with a pomegranate design , the orphrey embroidered in raised work with the Crucifixion in high relief, with St. Mary Magdalen and another Saint below - the orphrey German, first quarter of the 16th century (worn)

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The back of a chasuble of crimson velvet cut with a pomegranate design , the orphrey embroidered in raised work with the Crucifixion in high relief, with St. Mary Magdalen and another Saint below - the orphrey German, first quarter of the 16th century (worn)
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Provenance

Nemes Collection, illustrated, Nemes Catalogue II, 1933, No. 287

Exhibited

Lot Essay

There is a very similar orphrey, with one male Saint instread of two Saints, in Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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