Chasuble Back

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1450/1500

Italy

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Department: Textiles

Title: Chasuble Back
Place: Italy (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1451–1500
Medium: Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
Dimensions: 123.4 × 65.8 cm (48 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.); Repeat: 88.4 × 30.8 cm (34 3/4 × 12 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1944.407
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Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving, exh. cat. sponsored by the Los Angles County Museum in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts (New York: Weyhe, 1944), no. 186, pl. 49.
Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), 72, no. 58 (ill.).
Cyril G.E. Bunt, Florentine Fabrics (England: F. Lewis Publishers, 1962), fig. 41.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving, in collaboration with Cleveland Museum of Art and Detroit Insitute of Arts, Jan.–Mar. 1944, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery
Sumptuous Velvets from the Permanent Collection
Mar. 1–Sept. 28, 1980.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection, July 27–Oct. 9, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection, Sept. 11, 1996–Jan. 12, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, Alsdorf Gallery, Department of European Decorative Arts, Feb. 3-May 5, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Renaissance Velvets and Silks, Dec. 18, 2002–Apr. 13, 2003.

Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles CA, by May 18, 1944 [invoice, inventory no. 11033, Sept. 5, 1944; incoming receipt R8156, May 18, 1944; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.

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