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Chasuble

Spanish or Italian
16th century
Object Place: Spain or Italy

Medium/Technique Silk; embroidery
Dimensions 111 cm (43 11/16 in.)
Credit Line The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number51.2466
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsCostumes

DescriptionEcclesiastical Costume. Deep red, unpatterned, cut velvet sides. Orphrey; repeating one above the other, a pair of godrooned fountain or basin-like motives. From the spaces between them spring symmetrical pairs of leafy stalks and stylized floral volutes which terminate in zoo-morphic heads, blossoms and torch motives. Mainly metallic yarns with polychrome silk yarns on a red silk ground. Missing and worn yarns; possibly reworked in spots.