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    "localId": "144912",
    "label": "Part of a Chasuble",
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    "id": "144912",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Part of a Chasuble",
    "description": "Although missing the central decorative band, these two velvet panels embroidered with angels and thistles originally formed part of the back of an ecclesiastical chasuble. <br><br>The term <em>opus anglicanum</em>, or English work, refers to English embroidery dating from the 1100s through the 1500s, like this example. Made primarily in embroidery guilds in London, it was in great demand for royal and ecclesiastical garments and furnishings throughout Europe.",
    "date": "c. 1500",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.124",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79922521"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.124/1970.124_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 101 x 52.8 cm (39 3/4 x 20 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, London (embroidery) and Italy, Florence (velvet), early 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1970.124"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk, gold filé; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches  Velvet: solid pile, silk",
    "tombstone": "Part of a Chasuble, c. 1500. England, London (embroidery) and Italy, Florence (velvet), early 16th century. Silk, gold filé; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches  Velvet: solid pile, silk; overall: 101 x 52.8 cm (39 3/4 x 20 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club, 1970.124",
    "collection": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. 1971. “The Year in Review for 1970.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 58 (2): 22–71.",
            "page_number": "p. 79 no. 119, illus. p. 31",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Annual Report for 1970.” 1971. <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 58 (6): 162–94.",
            "page_number": "p. 174",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152381"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Young, Bonnie. \"Opus Anglicanum.\" <em>The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin</em> 29, no. 7 (1971): 291-98. Accessed December 20, 2020.",
            "page_number": "p. 291-298",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/3258645"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christa Mayer-Thurman. 1973. “Recent Acquisition: An English Cope.” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973-1982)</em> 67 (2).",
            "page_number": "p. 4-5",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/4111219"
        },
        {
            "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. 123",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n143"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
            "page_number": "p. 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Staniland, Kay. <em>Embroiderers</em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Monnas, Lisa. 1994. \"Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance Velvet: The Whalley Abbey Vestments\". <em>Textile History</em>. 25:1.",
            "page_number": "p. 3-28"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bergemann, Uta-Christiane. “Serial Production of Embroidered Orphreys in the Late Middle Ages.” in Wetter, Evelin, and Michael Bangert. <em>Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages</em>. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010.",
            "page_number": "p. 171-182"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heard, Kate. “‘All holie companye of heaven’: Uniformity and Individuality in the Iconography of Late Medieval English Orphreys.” In Wetter, Evelin, and Michael Bangert. <em>Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages</em>. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010.",
            "page_number": "p. 155-162"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Browne, Clare Woodthorpe, Glyn Davies, M. A. Michael, and Michaela Zöschg. <em>English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum</em>. 2016."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Michael, M. A. <em>The Age of Opus Anglicanum</em>. 2016."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.124",
    "creditline": "Gift of The Textile Arts Club",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:26:49.552000",
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    "sourceId": 144912,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "med": "Silk, gold filé; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches  Velvet: solid pile, silk",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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