Fragments of a Cope with the Seven Sacraments
Artist	circle of Rogier van der Weyden
Year	1463–1478
Type	Embroidery
Location	Historical Museum of Bern
Accession	308A-B
Website	Museum page

Fragments of a Cope with the Seven Sacraments refers to a 15th-century cope in the collection of the Historical Museum of Bern. It is part of the church treasure from the Cathedral of Lausanne sent to Bern after the Protestant conquest of Canton Vaud in 1536. The cope can be attributed to a master from the Netherlands in the circle of Rogier van der Weyden and was probably executed in Tournai where van der Weyden had a workshop from 1432 onwards.

The piece pictured is the hood. It depicts the Eucharist in the new tradition of the Devotio Moderna that arose in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. The embroidery uses one of the most expensive of the Tournai embroiders' techniques, the or nué (shaded gold) technique in which the juxtaposed gold threads are more or less closely covered by silk threads. A famous example of this kind of work is the Mantle of the Vestments of the Order of the Golden Fleece dating from around 1425–1450 and now at the Imperial Treasury, Vienna.

The cope was commissioned by Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont and presented by him to the Bishop of Lausanne. The Coat of Arms of the Counts of Savoy is embroidered at the bottom and indicating that the work was made before 1478, the year Jacques of Savoy was admitted to the Order of the Golden Fleece, as it lacks the Collar of the Golden Fleece.^[1]

• The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald

Campbell, Lorne and Van der Stock, Jan. (ed.) Rogier van der Weyden: 1400–1464. Master of Passions. Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2009. ISBN 978-90-8526-105-6, pp. 370 - 418

• "Or Nue". Historical Needlework Resources Website. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014.

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List of works
Single religious works	Virgin and Child Enthroned (c. 1430–1432) The Madonna Standing (c. 1430–1432) The Magdalen Reading (fragment, c. 1435–1438) Durán Madonna (c. 1435–1438) The Descent from the Cross (c. 1435–1438) Virgin and Child with Saints (c. 1435–1438) Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (c. 1435–1440) Saint Hubert Altarpiece (c. late 1430s) Pietà (c. 1441) Visitation (c. 1445) Saint Jerome and the Lion (c. 1450–1465) Saint John Altarpiece (c. 1455) Virgin and Child (c. 1460) Lamentation of Christ (c. 1460–1463) Medici Madonna (c. 1460–1464)
Portraits	Portrait of a Woman (c. 1435) Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1440–1445) Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (c. 1445–1450) Portrait of Antoine, 'Grand Bâtard' of Burgundy (c. 1460) Portrait of Francesco d'Este (c. 1460) Portrait of a Lady (c. 1460) Portrait of Jean Gros (c. 1460–1464) Portrait of John I, Duke of Cleves
Diptychs	Diptych of Jeanne of France (c. 1452–1470) Crucifixion Diptych (c. 1464–1465) Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child (c. 1460)
Triptychs	Annunciation Triptych (c. 1434) Crucifixion Triptych (c. 1440) Miraflores Altarpiece (c. 1442–1445) Seven Sacraments Altarpiece (c. 1448) Bladelin Altarpiece (c. 1450) The Braque Triptych (c. 1452) Saint Columba Altarpiece (c. 1455)
Polyptychs	Beaune Altarpiece (c. 1445–1450)
Civic	The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald (c. 1450)
Miniatures	Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good (1447–1448)
Embroidery	Fragments of a Cope with the Seven Sacraments
Workshop	A Man Reading (Saint Ivo?) (c. 1450) Portrait of Philip the Good (after 1450) Portrait of Charles the Bold (1460)

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Designers and embroiderers	Emilie Bach Leon Conrad Shahin Ebrahimzadeh-Pezeshki Kaffe Fassett Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty Constance Howard Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum François Lesage Ann Macbeth May Morris Jessie Newbery Mahtab Norouzi Tetiana Protcheva Charles Germain de Saint Aubin Mary Elizabeth Turner Dimitri Vlachos - Castano Kathleen Whyte Erica Wilson Lily Yeats
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