Date:1330 -1350

Date Quality:ca

Dimensions:121 cm Length x16.5 cm Width

Type:Vitae

Orientation:H

Shelfmark:1954.85

Provenance:Italy, Florence

Completion:Y

Description:A band of embroidered silk with threads of gold and silver on linen, showing six scenes from the life of the Virgin, reading left to right.

Bibliography:Cavallo, Adolph S. “A Newly Discovered Trecento Orphrey from Florence.” Burlington Magazine CII (December 1960). p. 505, no. 4, p. 510, no. 16.
Grönwoldt, Ruth. “A Florentine Fourteenth Century Orphrey in the Toledo Museum of Art.” Apollo 89, no. 87 (May 1969): 350–55. repr. p. 351, fig. 1.
Toledo Museum of Art. “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, Jan.-Mar. 1961.” Art Quarterly XXIV, no. 2 (Summer 1961). p. 200, repr. p. 198.

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