1960.751.1: Chasuble
Textile Arts
This object does not yet have a description.
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
- Permissions
-
The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
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.
Verification Level
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu