About the Artwork
Orphrey Fragment
ca. 15th century
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Italian
Italian
Lampas: silk, woven: brocatelle
Overall: 22 3/4 × 8 inches (57.8 × 20.3 cm)
Costume Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
29.281
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Enrico Testa, Florence, Italy)
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 1 (1929): p. 3.
Weibel, A. C. "Woven Orphreys," Bulletin of the DIA 16, no. 6 (March 1937): p. 98, (fig. 3).
Weibel, A. C. Two Thousand Years of Textiles. New York, 1952, no. 208.
Markowsky, B. Europäische Seidengewebe des 13.-18. Jahrhunderts, Köln: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Koln, 1976, p. 141, no. 64.
Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1991, no. 10, p. 23.
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Italian, Orphrey Fragment, ca. 15th century, lampas: silk, woven: brocatelle. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.281.
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