Textile Fragment with the Annunciation (Q60744547)
Label from: English (en)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used:
silk product (Q10475001)
gold thread (Q29586582)
location of final assembly:
Italian Peninsula (Q145694)
fabrication method:
lampas weave (Q64037025)
depicts:
Annunciation (Q154326)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1931.61
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.
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