Embroidered Altar Frontal with Saints Margaret, Stephen, and John the Evangelist
This impressive embroidered altar frontal (covering for the front of an altar) once belonged to the Englishman John Grandisson, bishop of Exeter cathedral (r. 1327-69). His coat of arms was added to the garments of the two deacon saints, Stephen and Lawrence (the second and fi...
Artifact
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679
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object
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stage
normalized
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John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter (1292-1369); Bacri Antiquaire, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1973, by purchase.
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en
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1
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