About the Artwork
Cope
late 15th century
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Italian
Italian
111 x 51 1/2 in 281.9 x 130.8 cm
Costumes
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford
30.36
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
"Ihesus" and "Maria" incorporated into embroidered Orphrey borders in gothic miniscule.
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Weibel, Adele Coulin. “A Gothic Velvet Cope,” Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 6 (March 1930): p. 83.
An Exhibition of European Art, 1450-1500. Exh. cat., The Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1936, cat. 151 (ill.).
Weibel, Adele Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. Detroit, 1952, cat. 227-228 (ill.).
Bunt, Cyril. Florentine Fabrics (World's Heritage of Woven Fabrics). Leigh-on-Sea, 1962, (fig. 42 ill.).
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Italian, Cope, late 15th century. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, 30.36.
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