Chasuble back
date: label: Date
content: 15th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Back of a chasuble with an embroidered orphrey band down the center, embroidered motifs at the sides, and bound all around with gold braid. The deep brown velvet side panels are embroidered in gold metallic and polychrome silks with angels on orbs and floral arrangements. The center band is densely embroidered with four saints in different architectural niches.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-653
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Chasuble back
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic Technique: embroidered and appliquéd on supplementary warp pile (velvet) in plain weave foundation, cut and voided Label: silk cut and voided velvet, appliquéd and embroidered with metallic yarns
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 135.3 x 61 cm (53 1/4 x 24 in.)