Epigonation (vestment)
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Gold and silver (wound on silk core) solidly couched in small waffle effect. Hands, faces, feet in silk, chain or split-stitch. Outlines for elaborate folds of garments in red silk running stitch, rays of Christ's mandorla in red silk satin stitch, with blue outline. Symbols for foliage in green. Transfiguration of of Christ. In top corner, Christ in mandorla, flanked by Elias and Moses with book. Three disciples, Peter, James and John crouching below. Braided cord for hanging attached to top corner; other three have long tassels of green silk bound at top in metal. Backed in red linen twill; white cardboard inserted for stiffness.
place: label: made in
content: Greece or Russia
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-115-7
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Epigonation (vestment)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal, linen Technique: couched, chain, split, satin embroidery; backed in linen twill