Fragment of a Cope with the Seven Sacraments HMB 308A-B, Rogier van der Weyden

Tournai or southern netherlands, 1463-1478 embroidery in different techniques, gold thread and silk, shield shaped hood: 55 x 55 cm fragments of orphrey: 46 x 32 cm (each) historical museum of bern , inv. 308a-b provenance embroidered at the commission of jacques of savoy (1450-1486), count of romont, and presented by him to the bishop of lausanne; lausanne cathedral treasury; in 1536, following the protestant conquest of lausanne, taken to bern; since 1882 in the possession of the museum.