About This Artwork

Italy, Florence

Band 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
111 x 18.2 cm (43 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
Robert Allerton Endowment, 1992.742a