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Silk, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strips and purl, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in back, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, padded couching, and French knots; gilt-metal spangles; edged with appliquéd linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal strips and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; lined with linen, plain weave
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Mayer Thurman, Christa C. Raiment for the Lord’s Service - A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975. Cat. No. 101, Illustration p. 217.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990. pp. 383-6.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. Medieval, Renaissance and Later Works of Art, Rugs, Textiles, Tapestries, Pewter and Furniture. (November 1-3, 1973). New York, 1973. Cat. No. 291, 292, Illustration p. 63.
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, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1973, December 15, 1977–March 26, 1978
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, Department of European
Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, May 2- July 2, 1990
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, January 20- June 20, 1995
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, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, August 20- December 30, 1998
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, December 5, 2001- April 17, 2002
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