Three Panels

Unknown Artist

late 14th century

Three Panels by Unknown Artist

Medium

Linen, colored silks, metal thread (white silk wrapped with strips of silver leaf, yellow silk wrapped with strips of gold), linen floss padding, couching; split and satin stitiches, background with relief pattern of scrolling branches in bunched linen thread originally with couched metal thread.

Dimensions

Overall (each): 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (24.8 × 19.1 cm) Framed: 33 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 2 in. (85.4 × 44.5 × 5.1 cm)

Classification

Textiles-Embroidered

Culture

Italian

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964

Accession Number

64.101.1383a-c

Tags

ChristMadonna and ChildAdoration of the Magi

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