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Chasuble

Italian (material) & Spanish (embroidery)
16th century
Object Place: Italy

Medium/Technique Silk; embroidery: velvet
Dimensions Legacy dimension: 51 x 29 in.
Credit Line Otis Norcross Fund
Accession Number51.2475
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsCostumes

DescriptionRuby red pile on pile velvet with design of serpentine scaly branches with scrolling symmetrical branches bearing pomegranates springing from them; embroidered orphrey worked with gold couched with colored silks on red satin grund; in front a male and a female saint, each in a roundel; in back, in roundels, Madonna and Child, St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, male saint; roundels joined by symmetrically arranged scrolling bands with ornamental foliage.
ProvenanceBy 1939, Adolfo Loewi, Venice and Los Angeles [see note 1]; 1951, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $750. (Accession Date: November 8, 1951)

NOTES:
[1] This was owned jointly by Ercole Sestieri, and later by his ex-wife, Lydia Sestieri.