About This Artwork

Italy

Chasuble Back, 1450/1500

Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
123.4 x 65.8 cm (48 5/8 x 25 7/8 in.)
Repeat: 88.4 x 30.8 cm (34 3/4 x 12 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1944.407

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving," January–March, 1944

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery
"Sumptuous Velvets from the Permanent Collection"
March 1–September 28, 1980

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, "Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection," July 27–October 9, 1983

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection," September 11, 1996–January 12, 1997

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Renaissance Velvets and Silks," December 18, 2002–April 13, 2003

Publication History

Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving, An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts (New York: Weyhe, 1944), no. 186, pl. 49.

Meyric R. Rogers. and Oswald Goetz. Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 72 (illus.), no. 58.

Buckingham Medieval Handbook, 1945, no. 58, pl. XLI.

Cyril G.E. Bunt. Florentine Faberics (Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, LTD., 1962), fig. 41.