About This Artwork

France or Italy

Cope with Hood and Orphrey Band, Early/mid-18th century

Silk, satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and brocading and self-patterning complementary ground wefts; edged with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven tape
148.7 x 303.4 cm (58 1/2 x 119 1/2 in.)
Repeat: 51.5 x 27.6 cm (20 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
Ella M. Schapper Fund, 1924.478

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,
"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

Publication History

Adele C. Weibel. Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving, An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts (New York: Weyhe, 1944), no. 349, pl. 71.