The panel is made of linen cloth and decorated with multi-coloured woollen threads. It is 33.5 x 27.5 cm in size and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA). It is one of a number of surviving medieval embroideries that are presumed to have been made in Catholic convents in this part of Germany.
During this period, several cloisters were known for the whitework embroidery (opus teutonicum). These cloisters include that of Kloster Lüne (near the German city of Lüneburg).
Sources:
- SCHÜTTE, Marie (1927). Gestickte Bildteppiche und Decken des Mittelalters: Volume 1, Die Klöster Wienhausen und Lüne das Lüneburgische Museum. Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, figs. 2-3, 11, XIV.
- YOUNG, Bonnie (February 1970). 'Needlework by nuns: A medieval religious embroidery,' The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 28, no. 6. pp. 264-65, fig. 3.
Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue (retrieved 8th July 2016).
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