Said to come from the Cathedral of Palermo [see note 1]. Claudius Côte, Lyon; sold by Côte, through Christoph Bernoulli, Basel, to Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; 1948, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $190. (Accession Date: May 13, 1948)
NOTES:
[1] See Adele Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles (New York, 1952), p. 126, cat. no. 161. / John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund