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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.
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