About this artwork
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Title
- Portion of Chasuble Back
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Origin
- Italy
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Date
- 1575–1625
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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
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Dimensions
- 80.7 x 68 cm (31 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.) Chasuble silk repeat: 11.5 x 13.5 cm (4 5/8 x 5 5/8 in.) Orphrey cross: 79.3 x 50.7 cm (31 1/4 x 20 in.) Edge fringe: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Dr. and Mrs. Magnus P. Urnes Endowment
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Reference Number
- 2001.169
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