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Orphrey fragment: Noli Me Tangere
Italian
14th–15th century
Object Place: Italy
Medium/Technique
Silk compound weave (lampas) with satin foundation and patterning wefts of silk and linen threads wrapped with gilt animal membrane
Dimensions
32.1 x 24 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number04.1640
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionThe ground is faded orange satin. The design, which consists of a repetition of the scene in the garden when Christ appears to Mary Magdalene, is woven with linen thread wound with gilded gold-beaters skin; the faces and hands are woven with white silk and the ground with green silk.
Provenance1904, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 3, 1904)