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Chasuble BackTextile: late 14th century (velvet); Embroidery: 1490-1510

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Crimson velvet chasuble with a wide central orphrey cross in gold and ivory embroidery, featuring an applied ivory crucifixion figure and a smaller haloed figure at the base
Embroidered liturgical vestment in crimson voided velvet with gold brocade medallions; a large orphrey cross in goldwork and laid couching features a three-dimensional carved ivory or bone corpus of a crucified figure with red halo, flanked by embroidered white rosettes at each terminal.
Embroidered orphrey band on red silk damask vestment, depicting a haloed bearded figure in draped robes within an arched niche, worked in raised goldwork and silk thread with interlaced geometric patterns along the column.

Unknown, Chasuble Back, Textile: late 14th century (velvet); Embroidery: 1490-1510, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dorothy Collins Brown, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Chasuble Back
Place Made
Velvet from Italy, Florence or Venice; embroidered orphrey probably from Germany, Bohemia
Date Made
Textile: late 14th century (velvet); Embroidery: 1490-1510
Medium
Silk cut and voided velvet, with metallic thread discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade), with linen plain weave applique with silk and metallic-thread embroidery and raised work
Dimensions
Length: 46 in. (116.84 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy Collins Brown
Accession Number
M.91.56
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles