ALTAR CLOTH (VOZDUKH)
Creator(s): Unknown (Manufacturer)
Currently in storage
About this object
The background is in various materials of different colors and embroidered with silver and silver gilt threads and sewn with paste stones in blue and red and also with fresh water pearls. There are one long and four small medallions. The larger one is engraved with the Baptism and the smaller ones with the Virgin and three saints. In each corner is a seraphim, the face painted, the wings embroidered in silver threads.
- Object name:
- ALTAR CLOTH (VOZDUKH)
- Made from:
- Velvet -- silk -- gold-wrapped silk threads -- silver-wrapped silk threads -- paste stones -- pearls -- oil on card
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 19th Century
- Size:
- 54.6 x 66.7 cm (21 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 43.8
- Class:
- NEEDLEWORK
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973