Chasuble

16th century (needlework), 17th century (damask support)

Not on view

This tabard-like garment is a priest's chasuble. Probably tailored in the seventeenth century, it combines a very fine, high-quality white silk damask with older, repurposed sixteenth-century needlework. This beautifully worked embroidery on a red velvet ground provided an orphrey strip on the chasuble's reverse, decorated with figures of the Virgin and Child, John the Baptist, and Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata, each set within niches. In the mid-twentieth century, the orphrey strip from the chasuble's front (16.32.321b) was repurposed a second time, removed from this garment and temporarily applied to another, fragmentary sixteenth-century chasuble (56.166a,b).

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Provenance

Title: Chasuble
Date: 16th century (needlework), 17th century (damask support)
Culture: Italian or Spanish
Medium: Silk with metal thread or nué
Dimensions: L. 48 inches (121.9 cm)
Classifications: Textiles-Embroidered, Textiles-Ecclesiastical, Textiles-Woven
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916
Object Number: 16.32.321a
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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