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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): after 1500 - before 1520; Classification(s): costume, dalmatic, weaving, Dalmatic, deep crimson velvet, with upon the front and back and the sleeves wide apparels of linen, embroidered with metal thread and coloured silks in satin stitch and couched and laid work.; Acquisition: given by Sir Charles and Lady Walston, 1914-05-30, Given by Sir Charles and Lady Walston [T.1-1914]
Description: Dalmatic, deep crimson velvet, with upon the front and back and the sleeves wide apparels of linen, embroidered with metal thread and coloured silks in satin stitch and couched and laid work. The front depicts Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas; the back Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Margaret all placed beneath foliated canopies. Between the sets of figures sits a coat of arms supported by a strap held in the teeth of a grotesque head. The sleeves depict saint Dorothy on the left and the virgin and Child on the right with a mermaid on either side. The figures are placed between columns without canopies. The backgrounds are of gold thread laid in various diaper patterns with edgings of raised gold. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown costume dalmatic | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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