Chasuble with Orphrey Band
1500–1520
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Chasuble with Orphrey Band, 1500–1520. England, London (embroidery) and Italy, Florence (velvet), early 16th century. Silk, gold thread, sequins; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches Velvet: solid pile, silk; embroidery: or nué (shaded gold); overall: 122.5 x 74 cm (48 1/4 x 29 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Walter C. and Alvin W. Littwitz in memory of their father, Max Littwitz 1947.2
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Silk, gold thread, sequins; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches Velvet: solid pile, silk; embroidery: or nué (shaded gold)
- Medium
- silk, gold, thread, sequins, appliqué, embroidery, couching, stitches, velvet, solid, pile, nué, shaded
- Dimensions
- Overall: 122.5 x 74 cm (48 1/4 x 29 1/8 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1947.2
- Credit Line
- Gift of Walter C. and Alvin W. Littwitz in memory of their father, Max Littwitz
- Exhibitions
- Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church, Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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