Part of an Antependium (Depicting The Last Supper)
1300–1310
- Medium
- Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen and silk in pulled thread work in chained border, overcast, and two-sided Italian cross stitches; embroidered in satin, single satin, stem, and stem filling stitches; couching; edged with silk, plain weave tape
- Dimensions
- 38.3 × 39.4 cm (15 1/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)needlework (visual works)Textile
About
The earliest piece of German needlework in the Art Institute's collection is a square portraying that Last Supper. The piece belongs to a group of embroideries which were executed in convents in Souther Lower- Saxony, form the late thirteenth through the fifteenth century.