Three Panels
Unknown Artist
late 14th century
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