Chasuble Back with Embroidered Orphrey Band
1415–25
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Chasuble Back with Embroidered Orphrey Band, 1415–25. Italy (chasuble ground); Austria, Graz (orphrey). Velvet: cut pile and voided; silk, gold and silver thread: embroidery; split and couching stitches; overall: 122.2 x 73.7 cm (48 1/8 x 29 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.85
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Velvet: cut pile and voided; silk, gold and silver thread: embroidery; split and couching stitches
- Dimensions
- Overall: 122.2 x 73.7 cm (48 1/8 x 29 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1950.85
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Gothic Art 1360-1440, Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church, Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Aus dem Besitz der Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz. Villa Favorita, Castagnola di Lugano, Switzerland (1949).<br>Aspects of Late Medieval Art. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 22, 1958).<br>Raiment for the Lord's Service, A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 11, 1975-January 18, 1976).<br>Gallery 216 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 1991).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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