Textile: Vestment
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Work Number
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580177
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Title
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Textile: Vestment
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Description
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Image 1: Ornate frieze with orans figure holding a chord in the center.
Bottom course: semicircular stitched motifs that hang from a course of beaded patterns.
Middle course: egg-and-dart design
Top course: vine and flower motif, interrupted mid-way through by a saint in orans pose holding a cord.
On either side of the vestment are saints holding their arms out in a gesture of blessing.
Image 2: Row of saints with Christ as Pantokrator enthroned at the center. Four angels appear around Christ - two near his shoulders, and two near his legs. They point towards him. Each saint in the row appears to have a unique hand gesture. Some of the saints clasp their hands together and hold them at chest height, others point towards Christ, or hold their hands angled and at their sides. All are barefoot. Above the frieze of figures is a Greek inscription.
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Medium
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Textile: Embroidering
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Provenance
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Gallery, case 8
