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Source Description
This fragment shows four small gold birds outlined in white and enclosed in a compartment formed by a white band decorated with small diamonds in gold. White lines with squares at the end containing small gold diamonds project from the band at intervals. Along the top and bottom of the piece is a guilloche band. Interlaced lines are gold with salmon outlines on gold ground.
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Document identity
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112835
label
Fragment of a Chasuble Orphrey Cross Band
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object
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Source metadata
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112835
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object
title
Fragment of a Chasuble Orphrey Cross Band
description
This fragment shows four small gold birds outlined in white and enclosed in a compartment formed by a white band decorated with small diamonds in gold. White lines with squares at the end containing small gold diamonds project from the band at intervals. Along the top and bottom of the piece is a guilloche band. Interlaced lines are gold with salmon outlines on gold ground.
date
1000s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80005276
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 16.5 x 17.1 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
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Italy
accession
1931.444
Source extras
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Silk and gold metallic thread: tablet weave
tombstone
Fragment of a Chasuble Orphrey Cross Band, 1000s. Italy. Silk and gold metallic thread: tablet weave; overall: 16.5 x 17.1 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. C. S. Reber, 1931.444
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Witte, Fritz. <em>Die liturgischen Gewänder und kirchlichen Stickereien des Schnütgenmuseums Köln</em>. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1926.
page_number
p.12, Tafel 12 (2)
citation
Capitani d'Arzago, Alberto de, and Ferdinando Reggiori. <em>Antichi tessuti della Basilica Ambrosiana</em>. Milano: "L'Arte", 1941.
page_number
pl. XVIII, fig. 49
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. <em>2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts</em>. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.
page_number
p. 10, pl. 20, cat. no. 66
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
p. 125, pl. 156
citation
Abegg-Stiftung Bern, Michael Stettler, Karel Otavsky, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Brigitta Schmedding. <em>Abegg-Stiftung Bern a Riggisberg = Abegg-Stiftung Bern in Riggisberg</em>. Bern: Paul Haupt, 1971.
page_number
Tafel 16
citation
Württembergisches Landesmuseum, and Reiner Haussherr. <em>Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur : Katalog der Ausstellung [Stuttgart, Altes Schloss und Kunstgebäude, 26. März-5. Juni 1977]</em>. Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1977.
page_number
Vol. I p. 626-7; Vol. II p. 573
citation
Collingwood, Peter. <em>The Techniques of Tablet Weavin</em>g. London: Faber and Faber, 1982.
page_number
p. 345-46, pl. 203
citation
Spies, Nancy. <em>Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands</em>. Jarrettsville, MD: Arelate Studio, 2000.
page_number
p. 277
citation
Pritchard, Frances. <em>Crafting Textiles: Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Lace and Other Techniques from the Bronze Age to the Early 17th Century</em>. 2021.
page_number
p. 1-69
creditline
Gift of Dr. C. S. Reber
updatedAt
2026-05-29 05:56:34.622000
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112835
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Textiles
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Textiles
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Silk and gold metallic thread: tablet weave
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