A dalmatic of rare white damask with orphreys worked in gold threads and coloured silks with male and female saints: St. Barbara, St.Andrew, St. Bartholomew, St. Paul, St. Margaret, Christ with St. John, St.James the Less, St. Agatha, St. Philip and others, and with a coat of arms: Or a Cross Gules - the damask Italian, the orphreys Flemish, early 16th century (worn)

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A dalmatic of rare white damask with orphreys worked in gold threads and coloured silks with male and female saints: St. Barbara, St.Andrew, St. Bartholomew, St. Paul, St. Margaret, Christ with St. John, St.James the Less, St. Agatha, St. Philip and others, and with a coat of arms: Or a Cross Gules - the damask Italian, the orphreys Flemish, early 16th century (worn)
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Provenance
The Emma Budge Collection, Hamburg, Sold Berlin, September 1937, lot 558

Lot Essay

Two Flemish families bear the arms Or a Cross Gules: Van Rokeghem and Mortaigne

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