Altar frontal
date: label: Date
content: early–mid-19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Altar frontal with an embroidered band that reads on the left "imponebant manus super illos," and at the right end "et accipiebant spiritum sanctum." Band is surrounded by scrolling vines. In central section, twelve medallions with figures of saints embroidered in brown and yellow silk surrounded by a scrolling vine embroidered in gold thread and red cotton. The saints (from left to right) are: the Virgin and St. Anne, The Virgin and Child, St. Henry of Bavaria (identification not certain), St. Christina, Joseph, a Bishop (not identified), St. Peter, Christ, St. Paul, John the Baptist, St. John and St. Francis.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Norvin Hewitt Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-48-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Altar frontal
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, linen, silk, metallic thread Technique: appliqué with satin, couching and chain stitch embroidery on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 367.8 x 32.5 cm (12 ft. 13/16 in. x 12 13/16 in.)