Bearing Cloth
ca. 1600
Medium
Silk satin embroidered with silver and gilded silver metal-wrapped threads
Dimensions
Overall: 5 ft. 5 9/16 in. × 3 ft. 6 1/2 in. (166.5 × 108 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Embroidered and Woven
Culture
British
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016
Accession Number
2016.526
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...