Textile Fragment with the Annunciation

Cleveland Museum of Art

Textile Fragment with the Annunciation

Date
1370–1400
Medium
Silk with gold thread; lampas weave
Culture
Italy
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
112965

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The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.

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Credit line
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance
?–1931: (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1931–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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