About This Artwork

Italy, Florence

Fragment from an Orphrey, 1360s

Linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in split and surface satin stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching
17.6 x 14.2 cm (6 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Robert Allerton Endowment, 1992.742c