About This Artwork

France

Cope with Self-Orphrey Band, c. 1765

Silk and silk chenille yarns, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts; edged with silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps tied by supplementary binding wefts and two-color supplementary pile warps, tied by supplementary binding wefts, forming uncut, voided velvet; lined with linen, plain weave
135.1 x 276.7 cm (53 1/8 x 109 in.)
Repeat: 51.8-52 x 26.5 cm (20 3/8-1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson, 1948.142

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpieces of Western Textiles," January 25–March 2, 1969

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments," November 15, 1975–January 18, 1976

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, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection," February 17–May 2, 1993

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

Publication History

Christa Charlotte Mayer. Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), p. 106, no. 82.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman Raiment for the Lord's Service - A Thousand Years of Western Vestments (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 258-9, no. 130.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 50, 53, 145.