A panel of opus anglicanum

England, last quarter of the 15th century

The Virgin Mary, standing with hands clasped in prayer beneath a blue vaulted ceiling, embroidered in coloured silks in split stitch, satin stitch and laid silk with trellis couching, and silver-gilt and silver threads threads in brick stitch and underside couching, on a linen ground. With losses to the silk.

Now laid on a panel of 16th century blue linen, and framed.

The textile 21.3cm (8⅜”) high and 22.2cm (8¾”) wide, in a gilt frame 40.2cm (15⅞”) high and 40.2cm (15⅞”) wide.