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This linkspage doesn’t include pillows or pillowberes used on beds; for that, see the beds linkspage. Lacemakers’ pillows can be found on the lacemakers linkspage. Book-cushions may be done as a separate linkspage at some point, too, but I haven’t started that (yet).
- Fols. 240r and 345r, bible (Canon. Bibl. Lat. 57), end of the 13th century
- A man tries to block a ram using a cushion, the Maastricht Hours (Brit. Lib. Stowe 17, fol. 142r), 1st quarter of the 14th century
- A 14th-15th century embroidered cushion from Westphalia, also discussed in A Stitch Out of Time
- A lady borne in a litter, works of Christine de Pizan (British Library Harley 4431, fol. 153), c. 1410-1414
- The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, c. 1434-1436
- Madonna of Humility by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1435
- Virgin and Child in an Interior by Robert Campin, c. 1435
- Detail from the center panel of the Annunciation Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1440
- Madonna of Humility by Sassetta, 1440s
- Madonna of Humility by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1442
- The Magdalene Reading by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1445
- Madonna of Humility with Two Musician Angels by Zanobi Strozzi, 1448-1450
- Madonna and Child by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1450
- Aristotle teaches Alexander, History of Alexander (BNF Fr. 9342, fol. 7v), mid-15th century
- Madonna of Humility, c. 1450-1470
- Virgin and Child enthroned, book of hours (Rawl. liturg. e. 20, fol. 19r), third quarter of the 15th century; note the lacing (?) along the side
- The death of Clitus, History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 20311, fol. 214v), third quarter of the 15th century
- Anthony Abbot the Great, book of hours (PML M.282, fol. 127v), c. 1460
- Virgin and Child in a Domestic Interior by Petrus Christus, c. 1460-1467
- The Lover and the Friend, Le Roman de la Rose (Douce 364, fol. 25v), c. 1460-1470
- The Virgin and Child by Dirk Bouts, c. 1465
- The Annunciation by Hans Memling, c. 1465-1475
- Scribal apprenticeship, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 287, fol. 1), second part of the 15th century
- Virgin and Child with a parrot by Martin Schongauer, c. 1470-1473; interesting details of the surface textile and the side lacing closure
- Fols. 16, 23v, and 192v,
Faits des Romains (BNF Fr. 40), c. 1470-1480
- Virgin Mary and the Christ Child with a donor and St. Peter, a book of hours (PML G.1, II, fol. 295r), c. 1475
- Christ appearing to the Virgin, late 15th century
- Fols. 7v, 10v, 11, 115, and 163, The knight Cifar (BNF Esp. 36), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- Archelaus mourns his father, Antiquities of the Jews (BNF Fr. 15, fol. 93), c. 1480
- Annunciation, 1484
- Bathsheba by Hans Memling, 1485 (see the cushion on chair on the center left of the painting)
- The Holy Kinship, book of hours (PML M.175, fol. 17v), c. 1500
- King David watches Bathsheba, a book of hours (Rawl. liturg. e. 36, fol. 61r), 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Madonna of the Green Cushion by Andrea Solari, c. 1507
- A pair of cushion covers made in Italy in the 16th century; silk and metal thread on silk
- Cushion cover with appliquéd design made in London, c. 1550-1600
- Portrait of Sir Anthony Mildmay by Nicholas Hilliard, 1585
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