Chasuble Front with an Orphrey Band
Object type: Chasuble front with orphrey band
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Culture: Italian, Spanish or Turkish, German
Date: 15th century
Medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk plain weave, brocaded with gilt metal thread.
Binding tape: cotton plain weave
Lining: linen plain weave, glazed
Front Orphrey band: silk, linen, and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen
Dimensions: 33 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (84.1 x 54 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Ecclesiastical
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession year: 1975