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Some Unknown English Embroideries of the Fifteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
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Although English embroideries have become a very popular subject of study and careful research during recent years, there are still a great number of hitherto unknown pieces scattered in private and public collections all over the world. Especially the works of the later medieval centuries are not yet properly collected and published, and regarding this later period much further research remains to be done.
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page 31 note 1 I refer to the most important work of Mrs. Christie, A. G. I., English Medieval Embroidery, Oxford, 1938, and to the valuable researches of Mr. A. F. KendrickGoogle Scholar.
page 31 note 2 I am unaware of the present whereabouts of the work.
page 31 note 3 Sometimes, indeed, a popular saint appears twice on the same vestment, for example, St. Andrew with the saltire cross on a later chasuble, lent by Mr. G. Chafyn-Grove to the Exhibition of English Embroidery, Burlington Fine Arts Club, pl. xi.
page 31 note 4 Cf. Chasuble Cross, Collection Iklé, St. Gallen (fig. 2), or Back of a chasuble in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Kendrick, A. F., Catalogue of English Ecclesiastical Embroideries, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1916, pl. xxii, &cGoogle Scholar.
page 31 note 5 In the English works of the later period the faces used to be stitched in the same way as on our embroidery.
page 32 note 1 Ad. , Fäh, Die Sammlung Iklé, Zürich, p. 12.Google Scholar
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page 32 note 6 Ibid., pl. xxxiv.
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page 32 note 8 Later descendants of the same style, pieces executed mostly about 1500 or at the beginning of the 16th century:
Chasuble Cross with figures of apostles and prophets. Owned by Mr. G. Troyte-
Chafyn-Grove (Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, 1905, pl. xi. 1).
Cope-orphreys with figures of apostles and prophets. Owned by Oscott College, Birmingham (Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition 1905, pl. xxi. 1, 2).
Cope-orphrey with Saints. Owned by St. Dominic's Priory, London, Haverstock Hill (Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, 1905, pl. XXVII. 1).
Chasuble Cross with Christ on the Cross and Saints. London, Victoria and Albert Museum (A. F. Kendrick, Catalogue &C, 1930, pl. XXXVIII).
Chasuble Cross with Christ on the Cross and Saints. St. Michael's Church, Abergavenny (English Medieval Art, Catalogue of Exhibition 1930, Victoria and Albert Museum, No. 659). Orphreys belong to Mr. C. W. Dyson Perrins (see p. 32, note 7).Google Scholar
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