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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.751.1
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Chasuble
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/214730

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silk with metallic yarns filé
Technique
Embroidery
Dimensions
99 × 54 cm (39 × 21 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harry G. Friedman, New York, Gift to Fogg Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Harry G. Friedman
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.751.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Chasuble of deep blue silk cut velvet with applied embroidery orphrey panels front and back. Front panels depict Saint James the Greater (top), a bearded male saint (bottom), both standing on a tile floor under a niche. Back panels from top to bottom are separated by decorative elements (a shell, a mosque motif and a stained glass motif): a half-length female saint, a martyred monastic saint and a half-length annunciating angel. Embroidery incorporates split and couched stitches.

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