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    "localId": "128066",
    "label": "Chasuble Back with Embroidered Orphrey Band",
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}

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    "id": "128066",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chasuble Back with Embroidered Orphrey Band",
    "description": "The chasuble is the main sleeveless outer vestment worn by priests while officiating during Mass. By the 1400s, the chasuble became highly ornamented with embroidered decorative bands called orphreys, often in the shape of a cross, as seen here. This luxurious Italian example features velvet of three colors with lush pile. In Graz, Austria, it was embellished with a locally embroidered orphrey featuring crowns, haloes, and backgrounds of scenes formed with gold thread. The Virgin and Child, and Saints Catherine, Dorothy, Ursula, and Barbara are featured.",
    "date": "1415–25",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.85",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60763345"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.85/1950.85_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 122.2 x 73.7 cm (48 1/8 x 29 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy (chasuble ground); Austria, Graz (orphrey)"
    ],
    "accession": "1950.85"
}

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    "tec": "Velvet: cut pile and voided; silk, gold and silver thread: embroidery; split and couching stitches",
    "tombstone": "Chasuble Back with Embroidered Orphrey Band, 1415–25. Italy (chasuble ground); Austria, Graz (orphrey). Velvet: cut pile and voided; silk, gold and silver thread: embroidery; split and couching stitches; overall: 122.2 x 73.7 cm (48 1/8 x 29 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1950.85",
    "collection": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Heinemann, Rudolf J., and Adolf Feulner. Aus dem Besitz der Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz. Castagnola/Lugano: Villa Favorita, 1949.",
            "page_number": "no. 477"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Svec, Evelyn. \"A Half Chasuble with Bohemian Embroidery.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 39, no. 7 (1952): 189-91.",
            "page_number": "p. 189-91",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141815"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 194",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n45"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958.",
            "page_number": "no. 7 (under textiles)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Gothic Art 1360-1440.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215.",
            "page_number": "p. 194, 201, no. 8",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25151960."
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 65",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 65",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mayer-Thurman, Christa C., John Maxon, Aidan Kavanagh, Donald L. Garfield, and Horace T. Allen. <em>Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments</em>. Chicago: Art Institute, 1975.",
            "page_number": "no. 25 p. 100-101; illus. p. 101"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 73",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n93"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
            "page_number": "p. 14, 57"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.85",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:36:32.501000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.85/1950.85_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 128066,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "med": "Velvet: cut pile and voided; silk, gold and silver thread: embroidery; split and couching stitches",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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