Portion of Chasuble Back

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Portion of Chasuble Back

Origin

Italy

Date

Made 1575–1625

Medium

Chasuble: silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; orphrey cross: silk, plain weave with gilt-metal-strip supplementary facing wefts; embroidered in silk, gilt-metal-strips, gilt-metal-strips wrapped with gilt-metal-wire and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, couching and padded couching over bast fiber padding; edged with silk, plain weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts with extended weft uncut fringe; lined with silk, plain weave

Dimensions

80.7 × 68 cm (31 3/4 × 26 3/4 in.) Chasuble silk repeat: 11.5 × 13.5 cm (4 5/8 × 5 5/8 in.) Orphrey cross: 79.3 × 50.7 cm (31 1/4 × 20 in.) Edge fringe: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Dr. and Mrs. Magnus P. Urnes Endowment

Reference Number

2001.169

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